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REYNOLDS  HISTORICAL 
Q1N1ALOGY  COLLECTION 


ALLEN  COUNTY  PUBLIC  LIBRARY 


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REPORTS. 


As  introductory  to  the  Report  the  following  memorandum 
or  record  may  fittingly  appear. 

"October  3lst  1891.  Met  in  the  Commissioners'  Room  in 
the  Court  House,  Historical  Secretary's  report  read.  Also  an 
address  by  T.  H.  Ball  in  regard  to  the  arrival  here  of  Solon 
Robinson  fifty-seven  years  ago  to-day.  A  motion  was  made 
and  passed  to  have  inserted  in  the  Secretary's  book  the  vote  of 
last  year  in  regard  to  having  printed  two  hundred  copies  of 
six  years  reports  of  Historical  Secretary.  Also  a  motion  was 
made  to  have  inserted  in  the  pamphlet  with  the  reports  en- 
gravings of  likenesses  of  any  old  settlers  whose  friends  will  de- 
fray the  expense." 

Note.  In  accordance  with  the  above,  cuts  were  obtained  from 
likenesses  of  Solon  Robinson,  Lewis  Warriner,  Charles  Marvin, 
and  Hervey  Ball.  These  will  be  reproduced  in  this  pamphlet, 
(which  is  printed  in  accordance  with  instructions  from  the  As- 
sociation.) together  with  such  other  cuts  as  may  be  obtained 
before  this  is  printed  and  bound.     T.  H.  B. 

The  following  in  that  brief  address  referred  to  above: 

fTFTY-SE VEX  years  ago  to-day,  where  is  now  this  town 
with  paved  streets  and  electric  lights,  the  county-seat  of 
the  most  rapidly  growing  county  in  Indiana,  there  was 
living  no  human  being.  With  the  exception  of  an  Indian  gar- 
den and  some  log  cabins  erected  by  some  one  that  past  sum- 
mer, it  was  then  the  wildness  of  what  it  seems  pleasant  to 
call,  although  we  know  so  little  about  it,  primeval  nature. 

The  red  men  and  women  and  children  were  near,  but  there 
is  no  evidence  that  they  had  at  that  time  a  cabin  or  a  wigwam 
here.  As  the  mid  of  that  clear,  delightful  October  day  was 
setting,  the  last  October  sunset  for  the  year  of  1834,  one  white 
family  from  the  eastward  and  southward,  having  been  journey- 
ing slowly  westward  that  afternoon  and  enjoying  their  first 
view  of  an  unbroken  prairie  robed  in  the  rich  dressof  our  gold- 
eu  autumn,  sought  the  shelter,  then  so  acceptable,    of    yonder 


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woodland,  and  found  a  refreshing'  draught  in  a  spring  of  clear 
water  where  probably  the  red  children  and  the  deer  had  be- 
fore that  day  quenched  their  thirst.  This  was  the  family  of 
Solon  Robinson,  whom  we  recognize  as  the  first  actual  settler, 
not  of  Lake  county,  but  of  Crown  Point, 

His  own  words  are  the  following:  "It  was  the  last  day  of 
October,  1834,  when  I  first  entered  this  'arm  of  the  Grand 
Prairie.'  It  was  about  noon,  of  a  clear,  delightful  day,  when 
we  emerged  from  the  wood,  and,  for  miles  around,  stretched 
forth  one  broad  expanse  of  clear,  open  land.  At  that  time  the 
whole  of  this  county  scarcely  showed  a  sign  that  the  white 
man  had  yet  been  here,  except  those  of  my  own  household.  I 
stood  alone,  wrapt  up  in  that  peculiar  sensation  that  man  only 
feels  when  beholding  a  prairie  for  the  first  time — it  is  an  inde- 
scribable, delightful  feeling.  Oh,  what  a  rich  mine  of  wealth 
lay  outstretched  before  me.  Some  ten  miles  away  to  the 
southwest,  the  tops  of  a  grove  were  visible.  Toward  Unit  on- 
ward rolled  the  wagons,  with  nothing  to  impede  them.  *  * 
*  *  *  Just  before  sundown  we  reached  the  grove  and 
pitched  our  tent  by  the  side  of  a  spring.  What  could  exceed 
the  beauty  of  this  spot!  Why  should  we  seek  farther?  Here 
is  everything  to  indicate  a  healthy  location  which  should  al- 
ways influence  the  new  settler.  *  *  *  *  After  enjoying 
such  a  night  of  rest  as  can  only  be  enjoyed  after  such  a  day, 
the  morning  helped  to  confirm  us  that  here  should  be  ourrest- 
ing  place.  In  a  few  hours  the  grove  resounded  with  the  blows 
of  the  axe,  and  in  four  days  we  moved  into  our  'new  house/" 

Thus  was  commenced  the  settlement  of  this  town,  there 
being  then  in  the  limits  of  what  became  Lake  county  the 
families  of  Thomas  Childers,  of  William  Ross,  probably  of 
Bennett  and  Berry,  the  stage  line  hotel  keepers  on  Lake  Mich- 
igan, and,  without  a  family,  in  his  lone  cabin,  William  Crooks; 
also,  near  the  mouth  of  Turkey  Creek  a  man   named  Winchell. 

Additions  were  made  here,  and,  before  the  spring  of  1835 
opened,  hamlet  life  commenced. 

According  to  "Lake  County  1884,"  by  1S10  the  hamlet  had 
become  a  village;  in  1SG5  it  became  a  railroad  town;  was  in- 
corporated in  1868;  and  now,  in  1891,  with  two  thousand  in- 
habitants, it  has  paved  streets  anil  electric  lights. 


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REPOB.T. 

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;q*>>HE  year  that  closes  with  October  31,  1891,  another  of   the 
4]i.     Old  Settler  Associational  years,  lias  been  a  year  of  some 
w        important  events  for  Lake  county. 

In  the  fall  and  winter  of  1890,  and  even  extending  into 
the  spring  of  1891,  there  was  quite  a  prospect  that  the  "Stock 
Yard  Purchase"  near  Tolleston  would  soon  be  occupied  by 
some  of  the  large  packing  houses  of  Chicago,  and  this  created 
what  is  called  "a  boom"  in  real  estate  in  all  the  "Calumet  Re 
gion"  of  the  county.  But  while  lands  have  been  bought  and 
sold  no  decided  improvement  near  Tolleston  has  been  made. 
The  most  growth  in  that  Calumet  Region  has  been  at  Whiting, 
the  Standard  Oil  Company  city. 

In  the  winter  of  1890  and  1891  a  strenuous  effort  was  made 
by  some  Hammond  citizens  to  have  a  bill  passed  through  the 
State  Legislature  leading  to  a  removal  of  the  county  seat  to 
Hammond.  Crown  Point  citizens  and  some  in  other  counties, 
especially  in  La  Porte  county,  worked  diligently  against  the 
bill,  and  it  was  at  length  defeated.  No  little  excitement  was 
awakened  in  the  county  by  this  attempt  of  the  young  manu- 
facturing city  to  take,  from  the  center  of  the  county  to  the 
border  of  the  city  of  Chicago,  the  county  seat  of  Lake. 

Great  improvement  has  been  made  in  Crown  Point  this 
past  summer  and  fall,  perhaps  as  one  result  of  that  effort  to 
remove  the  county  seat.  Through  the  summer  months  a  large 
force  of  men,  perhaps  one  hundred,  with  many  teams,  was  en- 
gaged in  paving  Main  and  some  other  streets  with  cedar  blocks. 
Arrangement  was  also  made  to  secure  for  the  town  electric 
lights.  At  about  6:30,  Sept.  10,  1891,  the  electric  lights  flash- 
ed out  upon  us.  At  the  Lathrop  corner  about  thirty  children 
gathered  and  commenced  to  play  in  the  circle  of  brightest 
light.  In  October  electric  light  began  to  be  used  in  the  Meth- 
odist church.  (Electric  lights  were  used  at  Cedar  Lake  for 
putting  up  ice  at  night  last  winter.) 

Quite  an  amount  of  building  has  also  been  done  in  Crown 
Point.'  One  old  landmark,  known  as  the  Register  building, 
has  been  removed  and  in  its  place  Mr.  Amos  Allman  has  erect- 


de  a  large  three  story  brick  building  which  is  quite  an  addition 
to  the  town.  Crown  Poi ut  has  this  year  a  brick  town  hall  com- 
modious and  useful.  The  large  Catholic  brick  church  has 
been  completed  and  dedicated,  one  of  the  largest  church  build- 
ings now  in  the  county.  The  Presbyterian  church  at  Crown 
Point  has  leceived  an  addition  in  the  form  of  church  parlors, 
built  as  a  monument  to  the  memory  of  Mr.  A.  N.  Hart  by  his 
daughter  Mrs  Biggs,  thus  making  this  house  the  most  com- 
pletely finished  and  furnished  church  house  in  the  county. 

At  Lowell  some  good  buildings  have  this  summer  been 
erected,  and  a  good  church  building  at  Dyer.  A  new  oil  pipe 
has  been  laid  along  the  Erie  road,  and  work  has  been  going 
on  along  the  gas  pipe  line.  Building  has  commenced  at  Grif- 
fith. 


The  death  record  for  this  year  is  short.  There  was  omit- 
ted by  some  means,  in  its  proper  place  last  year,  the  first  one 
which  is  inserted  here. 

Died  October  1,  1889,  John  Brown  of  South  East  Grove,  a 
pioneer  settler,  who  was  born  in  April,  1812,  and  was  then  in 
the  78th  year  of  his  age.  A  beautiful  marble  monument  stands 
in  the  South  East  Grove  cemetery  sacred  to  his  memory. 

Died  on  Friday,  Dec.  26,  1890,  Mrs.  Caroline  Hill,  wife  of 
Welcome  Hill,  seventy-six  years  of  age,  a  resident  of  Lake 
county  since  June,  1837. 

Died  Jan.  24,  1891,  at  eight  P.  M.,  Robert  Garrison,  at  his 
home  in  Creston,  aged  eighty-one  years  and  ten  months. 

Died  in  Hebron,  May  4,  1891,  Mrs.  Eliza  Servis,  an  early 
resident  at  South  East  Grove,  seventy-four  years  of  age. 

Died  May  12,  1891,  Oscar  Bacon  of  Deer  Creek,  about  six- 
ty-seven years  of  age. 

Died  at  Lowell,  June  24,  1891,  Mrs.  l\.st,  ninety  years  of 
age,  a  resident  in  this  county,  and  during  most  cf  the  years  in 
South  East  Grove,  for  forty  one  years. 

On  Sunday  morning,  Sept.  28,  1890,  at  Dyer,  I  learned  for 
the  first  time  that  among  the  burial  places  named  in  ''Lake 
County  1872"  the  old  one  at  Dver  was  omitted.      It    is    not    in 


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the  condition  in  which  it  ought  to  be.  The  owner  of  the  land 
around  it  1  know  not,  but  some  one  ought  to  care  for  it,  to 
fence  it,  to  keep  it  from  further  destruction.  I  should  think 
as  many  as  fifteen  graves  are  there.  These  records  on  the 
stones  for  memorial  are  all  that  remain:  Wilder  W.  Page  died 
Oct.  23,  1835,  36  years  old.  This  must  have  been  one  of  the 
earliest  and  perhaps  the  first  burial  of  a  white  person  in  the 
county. 

Hannah  A.  daughter  of  W.  W.  &  M.    R.    Page   died    Dec. 
30,  1838,  4  years  old. 

Anna,  wife  of  Almon  Wilder,  died  March  5,  18-10.     Age  31 
years. 

David  M.,  son  of  Charles  &  M.    Wakemen,   died    Aug.   3, 
1813.     Aged  18  years  and  6  months. 

Christian,  wife  of  T.  0.  Smith,   died    Jan.    12,    3807.     Age 
nearly  27  years. 

This  was,  perhaps,  the  latest  burial.     Whose  duty  is  it   to 
care  for  this,  at  present,  neglected  spot  of  ground? 


Weather  Record.  Friday  evening,  Sept.  26, 1800, at  Crown 
Point  the  katydids  were  quite  active  and  sonorous.  Warm. 
Saturday  a  cool  N.  E.  wind  blew.  Many  fields  yet  green  with 
corn  blades,  tobacco  blossoms  at  Dyer  bright.  Sunday  morn- 
ing, 28,  a  white  and  quite  general  frost.  Vines  at  Dyer  were 
for  the  first  time  this  fall  blackened. 

Oct.  10.  Last  night  in  the  Crown  Point  school-house  yard 
katy-dids  still  aiive  and  "chirping." 

^pSp'HE  fall  of  1890  was  very  pleasant.  November  was  an  uu- 
\U>  usually  delightful  month.  December  was  remarkable. 
There  was  a  little  snow  and  there  was  some  ice  in  Decem- 
ber, hut  through  most  of  the  month  the  roads  were  smooth 
hard,  dry,  like  summer  roads  without  much  dust.  Tuesday, 
Dec.  30th,  was  like  a  delightful  April  day,  warm  and  bright. 
Wednesday  an  April-like  rain  came  on,  gentle,  warm,  delight- 
ful.    The  roads  Wednesday  evening  were  somewhat  muddy. 

Thursday,  Jan.  1,  1 81) I ,  was  still  warm,  showers,  sunshine, 


anil  a  rainbow.      Mud    increasing.      In    the    night   the    wind, 


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which  had  been  southward,  changed,  and  this  morning,  Janu- 
ary 2,  there  is  a  very  little  suow,  it  has  frozen  some.  Itiscool- 
er  but  not  cold. 

The  mouth  of  January  unusually  mild.  Good  roads  most 
of,the  month.  The  last  of  the  month  a  warm  rain  came  on 
which  made  the  roads  muddy.  Sunday  morning,  February  1, 
still  cloudy,  damp,  mild.  Sunday  night  the  mud  became  froz- 
en. Monday  and  Tuesday  roads  hard  and  tough.  For  some 
hours  on  Mouday  morning  bright  sunshine  Tuesday  morn- 
ing about  zero.     Wednesday,  Feb.  4,  mercury  6  degrees  F. 

The  month  of  March  was  quite  cold  and  wet.  The  roads 
became  very  muddy.  The  first  third  of  April  quite  cool,  the 
roads  exceedingly  muddy,  almost  impassable.  Very  little  sun- 
shine for  two  or  three  weeks  in  March  and  April.  Some  snow- 
in  March.  April  3,  4,  snow  some  three  inches  in  depth.  Sun- 
day, April  5,  a  pleasant,  bright  morning;  in  the  afternoon  and 
evening  a  snow  fell  of  about  three  inches.  The  mud  had  froz- 
en  Saturday  so  as  to  bear  up  a  man.  At  night  the  mercury 
went  down  to  16  decrees  F.  After  such  a  mild  and  open  win- 
ter the  usual  spring  time  seemed  very  wintry.  Some  ice  was 
put  up  at  the  Armour  ice  house  at  Cedar  Lake,  the  men  work- 
ing night  and  day  when  ice  coidd  be  handled,  using  electric 
lights. 

For  May  and  June  no  record.  July  this  year  was  a  very 
cool  month,  said  to  be  the  coolest  for  twenty  years.  A  frost 
late  in  the  month  killed  some  corn  iu  low  places.  September 
very  warm,  and  quite  dry.  The  season  all  through  has  been 
fruitful.  Fertility,  rather  unusual  fertility,  has  been  the  char- 
acteristic this  year  in  the  vegetable  world.  All  crops  good. 
Potatoes  abundant  and  of  excellent  quality.  Apples  abundant. 
Rye  has  brought  an  unusual  price,  selling  for  about  the  same 
as  wheat.  The  autumn  closes  on  a  prosperous  farming  cum- 
in unity. 


JS  carrying  out  the  objects  for  which    these    reports    and 
records  are  printed  I  take  the  liberty  to    insert    here    a 
slip  taken  from  a  Crown  Point  paper,  written  probably 
a  year  before  the  Register  building  was  taken  down.      In    the 


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lowest  story  of  that  buildiug  was  then  the  post  office,  and  there 
had  been  before  that   the  Crown  Point  bank. 

At  The  Foot  of  The  Stairs. 


"The  stairs  alluded  to  are  those  just,  north  of  the  post- 
office  that  lead  up,  first  into  the  Register  office,  and  then  into 
the  hall  above.  And  seated  there  for  half  an  hour,  waiting  for 
ail  express  wagon,  I  thought,  how  many  have  in  other  years 
passed  up  those  flights  of  stairs.  Let  some  of  them  pass  here 
again  as  iti  a  stately  review.  First:  the  hall  was  occupied  for 
many  years  by  the  Masonic  Lodge  of  Crown  Point,  Lake 
Lodge,  No.  157,  and  many  were  the  feet  that  passed  up  and 
down,  of  those  who  walk  these  sidewalks  and  indeed  the  paths 
of  earth  no  more.  Just  by  where  I  am  sitting  now,  many  of 
the  principal  business  and  professional  men  of  Crown  Point, 
of  former  years,  have  passed  down  in  measured  and  slow  tread, 
to  go  forth  and  commit  to  earth  a  brother's  form.  I  look  up 
for  a  moment  into  their  faces  and  I  see  so  man}*  who  are  of 
earth  no  more.  The  Masons  pass.  Next,  the  hall  passed  into 
other  hands,  as  Lake  Lodge  found  a  larger  and  more  elegant 
place  for  meeting,  and  this  old  hall  was  used  for  social  gather- 
ings, literacy  meetings,  and  spelling  schools;  and  now  I  see 
passing  up  and  down  with  light  footsteps,  those  representing 
then  (he  youth  and  beauty  of  Crown  Point.  As  I  look  upon 
them,  many  of  these  too  are  of  those  who  come  no  more.  But 
again  the  scene  changes.  The  hall  becomes  a  school  room, 
and  morning,  and  noon,  and  evening,  the  footsteps  come  and 
go  of  teacher  and  pupils,  pupils  mostly  scattered  now.  Change 
comes  again.  The  hall  becomes  a  place  fo  prayer  and  praise, 
and  the*feet  of  a  very  different  class  of  citizens  now  go  regu- 
larly up  and  down  these  stairs,  the  feet  of  no  one  of  whom 
probably  will  ever  tread  here  again.  Another  change  comes. 
Young  foot  steps  approach,  but  the  tread  is  measured,  it  is  reg- 
ulated by  the.  heat  of  a  drum;  the  hall  is  "headquarters"  for 
the  High  School  Cadets.  So  they  for  a  time  march  up  an  file 
down.  There  is  life,  abundant  life,  in  their  footsteps;  and  now, 
even  they  come  down  and  go  forth,  with  slow  and  measured 
tread,  with  muffled  drum  and  arms  reversed,  and  pass    to    the 


home  of  our  Congressman  to  bury  a  dead  young  comrade. 
They  at  length  disband.  Again  the  hall  finds  other  occupants. 
Now  it  is  a  boys  club,  and  the  brisk  running  footsteps  of  boys 
go  up  and  down  in  thought  beside  me  as  I  write.  These  by  ys 
are  boys  yet,  but  the  steps  of  some  of  them  are  not  now  so 
brisk.  The  old  hall  becomes  a  private  abode,  the  home  of  a 
little  family  of  three,  with  a  large,  huge  dog.  But  they  do 
not  stay.  The  old  hail  is  empty  now.  Such  are  some  of  its 
changes  for  thirty  years.  It  is  not  likely  that  such  an  army  as 
has  been  up  and  down  these   stairways    will    ever   pass   these 

T.  H.  B. 


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1875.       18th  Meeting.       1892. 


Seventeenth  Anniversary.      Report. 

((fp^'EIE  year  that  has  passed  since  we  last  met  together  has 
<$JR>  been  and  still  is  one  of  the  remarkable  years  in  Ameri- 
can  histoiy.  We  are  so  near  the  great  city  of  the  North 
Central  States  that  we  cannot  fail  to  feel  the  influences  that 
stir  the  million  in  that  growing  center  of  commerce,  manufac- 
tures, and  social  life.  The  year  has  been  directly  and  indi-' 
rectly  a  year  of  preparation  for  the  great  gathering  of  the  rep- 
resentatives of  nations.  As  such  no  little  building  Jhas  been 
done  in  the  county,  especially  in  the  larger  towns,  Hammond, 
Crown  Point,  Hobart,  Whiting,  Lowell,  and  East  Chicago. 

In  the  last  named  place  the  black  walnut  lumber  business 
has  become  an  immense  industry.  One  could  baldly  realize 
without  seeing,  the  amount  of  logs  and  the  piles  of  lumber 
that  are  there. 

Joining  East  Chicago  on  the  east  large  chemical  works 
have  been  built  at  no  little  outlay  of  time  and  money. 


At  Lowell  many  fine  looking  dwelling  houses  have  been 
erected  and  the  side  walks  "have  been  greatly  improved. 

The  bridge  across  the  Kankakee  at  Water  Valley  has  been 
a  great  improvement. 

Besides  the  larger  towns  that  have  been  named,  at  Tolles- 
ton  improvement  has  been  made  in  buildings,  and  at  Creston 
Mr.  Cassius  Taylor  is  now  erecting  a  large  dwelling  house. 
There  has  been  no  doubt  some  improvement  in  nearly  every 
village  in  the  county.  We  have  now,  of  towns  and  villages, 
counting  the  little  Ivanhoe  thirty-three. 

Griffith  has  become  quite  a  little  town,  with  four  factory 
buildings,  one  church  house,  two  Sabbath  congregations  and 
two  Sunday  schools,  these  schools  counting  eighty  members. 
Already  its  buildings  are  in  three  townships,  North,  Calumet, 
and  St.  Johns. 

For  prod uctivenes  this  season  has  been  in  marked  con- 
trast with  hist  year. 

The  fruit  crop  has  been  almost  a  failure,  potatoes  and  corn 
poor  crops,  oats  probably  medium,  and  hay  a  good  crop.  Ap- 
ples have  seldom  been  so  scarce  in  the  county  as  now.  Plant- 
ing time  was  very  late  this  spring. 

The  months  of  both  May  and  June  were  very  wet.  The 
Little1  Calumet  was  a  mile  wide  or  more  between  Highland  and 
Uessville  until  almost  mid  summer.  There  is  no  record  of  its 
ever  having  been  as  high  in  June  before.  The  water  of  course 
was  very  high  on  the  Kankakee  marsh.  Until  quite  late  in  the 
summer  the  ditches  were  full  of   water. 

We  have  not  lost  so  many  by  death  as  in  some  past  years, 
but  three  very  prominent,  well  known  citizens  of  our  number 
have  been  called  away  from  earth,  Hon.  Joseph  A.  Little,  Mr. 
Charles  Marvin,  and  Hon.  Martin  Wood.  We  have  very  few 
such  as  they  to  lose. 

Joseph  Ames  Little,  son  of  Thomas  Little,  was  born  in 
Merrimac  county,  X.  H.,  May  24,  1830.  He  came  to  Lake 
county  with  his  father's  family  in  1855;  was  married  to  Miss 
Mary  Gerrish  in  1859;  became  a  successful  farmer  and  h\rge 
wool-grower,  keeping  for  many  years  large  flocks  of  fine  wool 
sheep;  was  a  member   of   the   Indiana    Legislature    for   Lake 


—  10— 


county  in  18S8  and  18ST,  and  died  in  the  morning  of  February 
19,  1892.  In  this  Association  his  interest  was  iid  ceasing,  find 
with  the  events  of  our  Semi-Centennial  of  1881  his  name  will  be 
associated  as  long  as  our  history  as  a  county  is    preserved. 

From  1859  until  his  death  he  was  a  member  of  the  Lake 
Prairie  Presbyterian  church,  and,  like  those  of  a  long  and 
worthy  line  who  went  before  him,  he  was  a  man  to  be  trusted, 
to  be  highlj-  esteemed,  and  to  be  honored. 

Charles  Marvin  was  born  August  4,  1811,  in  Norwalk. 
Conn.  When  a  young  man  he  went  to  Georgetown,  S.  C,  and 
staid  about  two  years.  He  visited  New  Orleans  and  was  there 
a  short  time.  He  went  up  to  Alton,  Illinois,  and  then  to  Lock- 
port  in  1833.  In  1S35  he  was  married  to  Miss  Charlotte  Perry 
and  came  to  Lake  county  with  his  mother-in-law,  whose  name 
is  on  the  Claim  Register,  in  1836. 

•  He  sold  his  first  farm  over  West  Creek,  in  Hanover  town- 
ship now,  to  H.  Sasse  Sen.,  about  1839.  Dec.  G,  1851,  then  a 
.widower,  lie  was  married  to  Miss  Eliza  Fuller.  He  sold  his 
second  large  farm  about  1881  and  bought  the  old  Judge  Wilk- 
inson place  where  he  built  a  fine  residence.  He  there  died 
Thursday  afternoon,  June  16,  1892,  and  wras  buried  at  Lock- 
poH.  being  nearly  eighty-one  years  of  age.  He  was  a  noble 
illusKation  of  wnat  an  American  farmer  may  be,  very  refined 
fcid  courteous  in  his  manners,  hospitable,  upright,  and  kind; 
although  not  a  church  member,  manifesting  a  Christian  dis- 
position and  trust. 

Martin  Wood  was  born  in  Ohio,  Nov.  26,  1815,  He  com- 
menced the  practice  of  law  at  Crown  Point  in  1818;  was  married 
to  Miss  Susan  G,  Taylor  of  Pleasant  Grove,  in  18-19;  in  1871 
and  1873  represented  Lake  county  in  the  State  Legislature;  was 
a  prosperous  lawyer  and  public-spirited  citizen,  whose  death  was 
deeply  felt  by  his  family  and  the  whole  community.  The  Histor- 
ical Secretary  was  present  at  the  burial  services  and  read  the  fol- 
lowing tribute,  "hi  memory  of  Hon.  Martin  Wood,  of  Crown 
Point,  Indiana,  who  went  to  sleep  in  death  on  Monday  morn- 
ing, September  5th,  1892,  aged  nearly  77  years. 


—II— 


Over  the  mystic  river, 

The  Joidan  of  death,  lie  has  passed. 

Out  of  death's  crowded  quiver 

An  arrow  was  shot  like  a  blast; 

Like  a  blast,  like  a  breath  from  God: 

Like  a  blow  from  an  iron  rod. 

Over  the  mystic  river, 
The  Jordan  of  death,  he  has  passed. 
Strongmen  will  sometimes  shiver, 
Into  death's  waves  suddenly  cast. 
But  love,  that  endures  to  the  end, 
Firmly,  we  trust,  upheld  our  friend. 

On  this  side  tears  and  sorrow, 

Life's  doubts  and  its  fears  and  its  gloom. 

On  that,  no  dark  to-morrow, 

No  sin,  and  no  death,  and  no  tomb. 

Glad  let  us  be  to  safely  pass 

Where  even  gold  is  clear  like  glass: 

To  pass  to  that  great  city. 
City  of  gold  with  jasper  walls. 
Spotless,  pure,  holy  city, 
.Where  on  the  soul  no  shadow  falls. 
This  we  know  of  that  city  bright. 
Its  length  is  as  its  breadth  and  height. 

More  we  know  of  that  city. 

Its  gates  are  made  of  pearls  so  fair; 

(Jt  is  a  four-srjuare  city,) 

Twelve  gates  with  angels  waiting  there. 

Room  enough  for  the  countless  throngs, 

And  light,  within  and  joy  and  songs. 

No  need  to  offer  pity 

For  those  who  p<tss   within, 

Within  God's  holy  city 

Where  comes  no  pain  nor  shame  nor  sin. 

Sweet  is  the  hope  that  he  has  passed 

Where  trials  all  are  o'er  at  last. 


—  12— 

J 

Man,  made  of  earth,  is  earthy, 

So  back  to  earth  we  will  give  the  dust, 

The  soul,  which  is  not  earthy, 

Resting  with  the  souls  of  the  just. 
Morning  stars  shine  in  eastern  skies; 
Night  soon  will  end,  the  dead  arise. 

Fare  thee  well,  friend  and  brother; 
Farewell,  but  not, 'no,  not  for  aye; 
For  soon,  one  after  the  other. 
We  pass  from  this  night  to  the  day. 
Well  may  we  bear  earth's  toil  and  strife, 
In  hope  of  everlasting  life: — 

In  hope  of  that  glad  union, 
,  When  eaith's  partings  are  no  more; 

In  hope  of  the  saints'  communion 
On  that  bright,  blooming,  deathless  shore. 
There  we  may  meet  the  saints  of  old 
And  walk  with  them  the  streets  of  gold." 

T.  H.  B. 


Weather  Record.  1891-1892. 

*q*>HE  lastOld  Settler  year  closed  with  October  '31,  1891. 
?Jp»     The  month  ol   October   had    been    very    pleasant,    fires 

were  raging  in  the  marsh  during  the  last  week  of  the  month, 
and  in  the  central  part  of  the  county  it  was  still  dry.  Novem- 
ber was  h  cool  month.  It  had  been  so  dry  that  the  ground  was 
too  hard  for  fall  plowing.  Some  late  rains  came,  a  little  snow 
Nov.  23,  2-1,  and  ground  frozen.  Nov.  24,  mercury  at  8  degrees 
F.  Dec.  2,  plowing  again  commenced  and  continued  until 
Christmas. 

Cedar  Lake  was  frozen  over  three  times  up  to  Jan.  1, 1S92. 
Three  weeks  of  quite  good  ice  weather  in  January.  A  large 
amount  of  ice  put  up  at  Cedar  Lake,  some  two  hundred  men 
working  at  Armour's  and  one  hundred  at  the  south  end.  About 
sixty  carloads  a  day  shipped  from  Armour's  while  filling  the 
house.     Jan.  9th  and  15th  10  degrees  F.  below  zero.     Early  in 


r 


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February  a  thaw-  Roads  muddy.  Quite  an  amount  of  sick- 
ness, grippe,  mumps,  pneumonia,  and  typhoid  fever.  Friday 
evening.  Feb.  5,  1892,  Venus  and  Jupiter  appeared  in  a  clear 
sky  at  Crown  Point,  almost  in  a  right  line  with  the  earth-  It 
was  a  beautiful  sight,  such  as  one  might  not  expect  to  see 
more  than  once  in  a  lifetime.  Those  interested  in  such  unus- 
ual phenomena  could  not  forget  that  sight.  A  few  evenings 
before  there  had  also  been  a  beautiful  sight  of  which  one,  in  a 
Boston  paper,  said:  "The  close  approach  of  the  new  moon 
and  the  two  bright  planets,  Venus  and  Jupiter,  on  Jan.  Mist 
and  Feb.  1st  was  one  of  the  most  brilliant  astronomical  sights 
in  the  life  of  the  present  generation/'"  On  the  iifth  Venus  and 
Jupiter  seemed  to  almost  touch  each  other.  They  were  last  in 
conjunction  in  July,  1859.  On  Saturday  evening  Feb.  13,1892 
there  was  seen  here  a  magnificent  display  of  the  Northern 
Light,  between  six  and  seven  o'clock.  It  \vas  remarkable  for 
its  general  rich,  red  color,  and  for  its  evenness  of  display. 
Some  of  the  streamers  were  very  bright,  but  the  flashing  or 
streaming  upward  was  quite  quiet  compared  with  some  dis- 
plays in  former  years  over  Lake  county. 

On  Sunday  morning,  Feb.  14th,  a  light  rain,  changing  to 
sleet  and  snow  with  a  strong  N.  E.  wind,  became  a  severe 
storm  but  mercury  not  low.  Monday  morning,  15th,  about 
zero.  Feb.  16th  was  very  pleasant.  The  rest  of  the  month, 
cloudy,  moist,  damp  weather  with  a  little  rain.  Wild  geese 
and  ducks  along  the  Kankakee  22d,  23d  and  onward.  Feb. 
25th,  the  roads  about  as  bad  as  they  ever  get.  March,  for  the 
most  part,  spring  weather,  bluebirds,  robins,  and  larks  report- 
ed in  the  county,  temperature  mild,  roads  muddy. 

Some  cold  days,  some  little  snow.  iMareh  19th  a  severe 
wind  on  the  marsh.  April  a  cool  month.  A  wind  storm  blew 
down  the  barns  of  Dr.  Hill,  of  A.  Fdgerton,  removed  a  barn 
in  Crown  Point  three  feet  north,  and  did  some  other  damage. 

Flowers  in  the  woods  open  about  April  15th,  and  straw- 
berries in  blossom  in  April.  May  a  wet  month.  The  highest 
water  for  many  years.  June  very  wet.  July  quite  dry.  Late 
potatoes  suffered  for  want  of  rain. 


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The  greatest  act  of  cruelty  on  record  in  our  annals  was 
the  burning  of  a  barn  about  January  1st  containing  eight  old 
horses.  It  was  confessed  that  fifty  dollars  was  paid  to  each  of 
three  men  to  set  hre  to  the  barn  while  the  horses  were  tied 
within.  One  had  been  bought  for  three  dollars,  another  for 
two,  and  the  others  for  little  or  nothing.  Eight  good  horses, 
that  had  been  insured,  were  taken  off  to  Michigan,  and  these 
put  into  the  barn  in  their  stead.  About  one  thousand  dollars 
insurance  money  was  obtained;  but.  wrong  was  suspected. 
The  guilty  men  were  punished. 

There  were  reported  about  43  buildings  now  around  Cedai 
Lake,  going  back  a  little  way  from  the  lake  shore  among  them 
two  school  houses;  about  39  of  these  haying  a  lake  front* 

There  were  placed  on  exhibition  this  year,  belonging  to 
the  Brown  and  Fisher  families,  spoons  from  Scotland  bearing 
the  date  of  1749;  also  Matthew  Henry's  Exposition,  1793:  and 
a  horn  spoon  that  belonged  to  Mr.  Win.  Brown's  grandmother, 
Martha  Robertson  of  Scotland,  used  in  1796. 

Three  yisitors  were  among  their  special  friends  and  kind- 
red this  summer,  whose  presence  for  a  short  time  in  the  coun- 
ty recalled  scenes  and  events  of  long  years  ago,  and  whose 
names  as  yisitors  to  their  early  homes  should  be  here  recorded. 
These  were  Mr.  Major  Farwell,  Mr.  Jacob  Hornor,  and  Mrs. 
Esther  Taylor  Benton. 

The  following  was  the  Address  for  the  year,  the  Associ- 
ation holding  this  anniversary,  as  the  last  was  held,  in  the 
Commissioners'  Room  of  the  Court  House. 

I  esteem  it  as  one  of  the  opportunities  and  priyileges  of 
my  life  to  have  prepared  the  historical  oration  at  our  Semi- 
Ceutennial  Celebration  in  1881.  I  esteem  it  as  a  privilege 
which  I  prize  to  have  the  opportunity,  in  this  four  hundreth 
3rear  since  the  discovery  of  Ameiica  by  Columbus,  to  prepare 
for  our  Association  a  formal  address. 

For  I  think  that  no  one  can  take  a  deeper  interest  than  1 
do  in  all  things  pertaining  to  the  true  interests  of  our  county; 
I  am  sure  that  no  one  can  speak  to  you  in  regard  to  the  past 
and  the  present  with  kindlier  feelings;  and  I  believe  that  I 
can  see  without  any  envy   or   prejudice    or    covelousuiss,    all 


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<he  excellencies  and  all  the  advantages  and  all  the  prosperity 
of  our  later  citizens. 

I  am  not  yet  old  enough  to  live  only  in  the  past;  but  I  be- 
lieve largeh7  in  a  statement  in  this  paragraph  which  I  take, 
new  and  fresh,  from  a  leading  New  England  publication  dated 
September  first:  '"'Local  pride,  if  it  be  not  allowed  to  degene- 
rate intoexclusiveness  and  selfishness,  is  an  excellent  thing  and 
should  receive  all  possible  encouragement.  Such  pride  is 
needed  for  the  proper  development  of  civic  or  communal  in- 
terests, and  the  lack  of  it  cannot  be  too  deeply  deplored.  And 
as  local  pride  of  the  right  kind  is  excellent,  far  more  so  is  the 
true  historic  spirit.  The  more  that  a  nation  or  town  cultivates 
it  and  glories  in  all  its  past  which  is  worth  glorying  in,  the 
more  promise  there  is  that  its  people  will  do  something  that 
will  win  th^  praise. of  the  future." 

The  statement  to  which  I  referred  I  repeat:  The  more  a 
nation  or  town — the  same  is  true  of  a  county — cultivates  the 
true  historic  spirit  "and  glories  in  all  its  past  which  is  worth 
glorying  in,  the  more  promise  there  is  that  its  people  will  do 
something  that  will  win  the  praise  of  the  future."  I  have  no 
sympathy  with  that  spirit  which  is  constantly  Baying",  This  is 
something  new;  We  never  had  anything  like  this,  nor  equal  to 
this  among  us-  before.  They  who  are  but  as  of  yesterday  will 
coolly  say  to  us  who  laid  the  foundations  of  society  here,  You 
never  had  such  things  here  before.  In  regard  to  this  kind  of 
sentiment  I  do  not  feel  very  kindly;  for  I  know  we  have  had 
in  our  almost  sixty  years,  tilings  in  the  past,  in  many  lines, 
in  which,  according  to  the  language  T  have  quoted,  we  may 
fittingly  glory.  Our  lowly  log  cabin*,  our  puncheon  floors, 
our  homemade  bedsteads,  our  privations  of  various  kinds  inci- 
dent to  nearly  all  frontier  settlement,  were  not  things  specially 
"worth  glorying  in";  but  the  spirit  of  the  men,  of  the  women, 
and  of  the  children,  who  succeded  the  Indians  on  this  soil; 
their  hospitality,  their  integrity,  their  cheerful  acceptance  of 
privations  and  hardships,  their  earnest,  industrious,  patient 
labor  in  the  house,  in  the  field,  in  mills  and  workshops,  their 
zeal  in  promoting  schools  and  societies  and  churches,  their 
rapid    development  of  the   material   resourses  of  the    county 


— 16— 
amid  trials,  hardships,  discouragements,  were  tilings  in  which 
to  glory.  Away  from  markets,  from,  schools,  from  churches; 
from  the  civilization  of  the  older  regions  to  which  they  were 
accustomed;  with  few  roads,  no  bridges,  only  as  they  made 
them;  post  offices  few  and  far  away,  mails  slow,  letters  costing 
twenty-five  cents  each;  I  wonder  that  there  whs  so  little  of 
homesickness  among  our  pioneer  families.  1  think  there  was 
something  in  the  beauty  and  freshness  of  that  which  poets  find 
historians  like  to  call  primeval  nature,  tocheer  and  uplift  the 
soul, — the  Indians  and  Mound-builders  had  left  us  only  some 
trails,  some  mounds,  some  burial  places  and  dancing  floors, 
to  show  that  they  had  been  here  before  us — something  I 
think,  in  being  near  to  the  God  of  nature  in  these  then  great 
solitudes,  as  though  this  region,  and  it  was  lovely,  had  just 
proceeded  from  the  shaping  hand  of  God, — something 
that  cheered  the  hearts  of  refined,  cultivated,  Christian  wom- 
en who  were  among  us  even  then,  which  made  them  so 
lighthearted  as  heavy  burdens  came  upon  them.  They  were 
here  as  builders,  under  God,  of  institutions,  in  a  new,  bright 
world.  This  was  their  world.  Such  native  beauty  with 
such  a  position  is  cheering  and  invigorating.  They  were 
young,  and,  with  husbands  and  children  with  them,  they  could 
well  look  hopefully  forward  to  our  own  and  to  later  days. 

The  native  beauty  of  our  region  is  no  creation  of  the  im- 
agination. The  light  that  shone  here  was  not  a  "light  that 
never  shone  on  sea  or  land,"  but  something  real  and  end  ►ant- 
ing. We  who  as  pioneer  children  saw  the  prairies  in  those 
early  days,  the  tall  grass,  the  polor  plant,  the  beds  of  phlox, 
the  various  bright  autumn  flowers  of  rich  hues  that  painters 
make,  with  the  life  and  also  the  solitude  of  the  pmiries:  and 
then  the  grand  autumn  iires,  the  frightened  grouse  niicI  (bel- 
aud wolves:- —  may  be  very  sure  that  not  in  this  land,  on  the 
regons  of  the  West,  until  we  comeamong  the  mountains  grand, 
has  more  beauty  been  spread  before  your  eyes. 

Four  hundred  years  ago  this  autumn  Columbus    discover- 
ed America.     Two  hundred   and    seventy  two    years    ago    this 
coming  December  the  Pilgrims  landed  on  Plymouth  Rock. 
t,  "When  the  sea  around  was  black  with  storme, 

And  white  the  shore  with  snow." 


—17- 

Sixty  years  ago,  in  1832,  the  Indian  title  to  most  of  onr 
land  was  here  extinguished.  It  was  the  year  when  Gladstone 
entered  the  British   Parliament. 

Says  a  good  writer,  in  reviewing  briefly  the  condition  of 
Europe,  "Just  sixty  years  ago  Mr.  Gladstone  made  his  entry 
into  Parliament  as  the  Tory  member  for  Newark.  The  other 
day,  for  the  fourth  time  as  leader  of  the  Liberal  party,  he  be- 
came prime  minister  of  the  British  Empire.  *  *  * 
Within  these  sixty*  years  not  only  the  politics  of  Mr.  Gladstone 
but  the  face  of  the  world  has  changed.  Continents  have  been 
opened  and  nations  created,  while  thrones  have  crumbled,  and 
old  social  orders  have  been  swept  away.  *  *.•*./ 

The  Europe  of  1S92  has  little  in  common  with  the    Europe   of 
sixty  years  ago." 

The  years  that  have  seen  and  made  such  changes  over  all 
the  civilized,  world  have  seen  our  region  change  from  Indian 
occupancy  to  the  Lake  county  of  to-day.  I  have  suggested 
some  tilings  connected  with  our  past  in  which  we  may  fitting- 
ly glory.  We  have  made  roads  and  bridges;  we  have  built 
school  houses  and  churches;  we  have  established  towns  and 
villages,  (and  residing  in  these  are  more  than  one  half  of  our 
inhabitants;)  we  have  well  cultivated  farms;  we  send    off    milk 


and  butter  and  hay.  uml  horses  and  cattle,  and  hogs  and  poul- 
try; We  have  become  the  most  rapidly  growing  county  in  In- 
diana; and  we  have  made  a  good  reputation  in  different  lines 
of  effort.  We  have  attained  to  a  fair,  but  surely  not  yet  a  per- 
fect, state  of  civilization.  Sixty  years  ago  only  Indians  here. 
To  day  with  about  twenty-five  thousand  inhabitants,  fifteen 
thousand  in  our  tlml y-three  towns  and  villages,  ten  thousand 
on  farms,  we  are  a  prosperous,  glowing,  comparatively  happy, 
and  I  hope  useful,  portion  of  the  great  common-wealth  of  In- 
diana,. 


— 18— 

REPORT.'  AUGUST   19,  1893. 
At  The  Fair  Ground. 


(gfps"HE  many  blessings  that  we  are  enjoying  on  this,  our  eigli- 
$1%  teenth  anniversary,  call  for  greatful  acknowledgments 
u  of  the  kindness  of  the  protecting  Power  whose  provi- 
dence arranges  all.  The  svme  weeks  and  months  Inive  passed 
over  us  in  Lake  county  that  have  passed  over  the  land  and  the 
world,  as  the  year  1892  of  the  Christian  Era  came  to  a  close 
and  the  year  1S(J3  hasalready  so  much  of  it  gone;  but  ''the 
times"  that  have  passed  over  us  have  been  vastly  different 
from  the  times  which  some  have  experienced  in  different  parts 
of  the  world.  While  famine  and  pestilence  and  exile  and 
great  commotions  have  been  the  experiences  of  many;  and  war 
clouds  have  been  darkening  over  communities  and  nationali- 
ties, we  have  had  peace,  plenty,  and  prosperity.  We  should 
be  grateful  that  our  government  is  not  like  those  of  the  Cen- 
tral and  South  American  States,  that  we  aie  not  members  of  a 
state  so  feeble  as  Siam,  that  our  institutions  are  better  even  and 
more  stable  than  those  of  powerful  Fiance,  that  our  free  insti- 
tutions have  given  to  us  so  much  "bone  and  sinew  and  vital- 
ity." Even  the  singular  financial  embarrassnieutsof  t  he  coun- 
try have  to  no  great  extent  affected  our  business  enterprises. 

The  doers  of  two  of  our  banks  have  been  closed,  the  Com- 
mercial Bank  at  Lowell  and  the  National  Dank  at  Hammond, 
yet  the  losses  to  depositors  have  been  slight  compared  with 
what  many  have  sustained  in  the  citiesof  the  land.  The  wheat, 
the  hay,  and  the  oat  crops  have  been  quite  good;  the  coin  no 
doubt  will  be  cut  short  by  the  unusual  dry  weather  which  in 
common  with  large  areas  of  the  country  we  have  experienced. 
Potatoes  are  likely  again  to  ha vc  a  high  price;  and  fruit  of 
most  varieties  has  been  far  from  abundant.  The  summer,  ex- 
cept that  it  has  not.  promoted  so  much  as  usual  the  growth  of 
vegetation,  has  been  quite  delightful.  But  few  very  hot  days 
and  very  few  sultry  nights,  no  violent  storms,  northerly    winds 


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prevailing  largely  and  eooJ  nights.'    Scarcely    a   drop   of   rain 
through  the  long  period  of  baying  unci  harvesting.     Indeed  no 

general  rain  over  the  county  since  Saturday  June  10th.  I  do 
not  know  when,  for  the  mere  enjoyment  of  the  weather,  for 
building,  or  travel,  or  recreation,  we  have  had  a  more  delightful 
summer.  And  well  have  the  builders  in  Crown  Point  improv- 
ed it,  where  an  unusual  number  of  dwelling  houses  has  been 
erected. 

In  the  early  summer  much  building  was  done  in  Ham- 
mond and  East  Chicago,  and  Lowell  and  Hobart  have  also 
been  improving.  A  large  amount  of  building  has  been  going 
on  at  Whiting,  a  town  soon  to  become  a  city,  that  has'felt  but 
slightly  the  financial  situation  of  the  country.  In  Whiting  are 
now  three  church  buildings,  one  Congregational,  one  Catholic, 
one  Lutheran;  East  Chicago  has  four;  in  Hammond  there  are 
eleven;  making  now  in  the  county  sixty-one.  And  of  these, 
more  than  half,  thirty-one,  are  in  that  part  of  the  county,  north 
of  townships  35,  (in  North  19,  in  Calumet  2,  in  Hobart  10,)  where 
a  few  years  ago  there  was  but  one. 

These  church  buildings  of  the  county  will  seat  probably, 
on  an  average,  250  each,  thus  affording  accommodations  for 
15.000  people,  as  many  as  ever  attend  church  at  one  time  in 
L?dve  county.  To  accommodate  our  7833  children  we  have  11G 
school  buildings,  and  165  teachers  to  give  instruction. 

Many  miles  of  railroad  have  this  year  been  constructed, 
the  Fort  Wayne  track  being  completed  from  East  Chicago  to 
the  main  line  and  the  Wabash  having  now  a  road  across  the 
count v,  giving  live  roads  and  a  branch  road  north  of  the*Xick- 
el  Plate.  I  think  the  whole  number  of  miles  is  now  260.  In 
number  of  miles  of  railroad  our  comity  is  still  first  in  the  State. 
A  few  special  buildings  should  be  mentioned :  Dr.  Gerrish's 
line  office  building  at  Lowell;  the  Sigler  hotel  at  Cedar  Lake 
on  Cedar  Point  bluff,  the  front  100  feet  long  and  52  feet  deep, 
and  the  back  part  65  feet  by  30,  three  stories  high,  93  rooms, 
furnished  with  water  and  gas,  the  whole  costing  about  $16,000; 
the  large  brick  school  house  erected  at  LeKov;  and  a  large, 
a  massive  structure,  to  cost  forty  or  fifty  thousand  dollars  now 
in  process  of  erection  at  Hammond,  to  be  completed,  if    possi- 


hie, this    fall  and  expected  to  he  the  finest  public  school  build- 
ing iu  northwestern  Indiana,  built  by  North  township. 

Lake  county  is  represented  in  the  World's  Fair,  in  the 
Manufacturers'  Building  by  Lowell  and  fclobart,  by  several 
of  our  public  schools  in  the  Educational  Exhibit,  and  sixteen 
publications,  large  and  small,  are  iii  the  Indiana  Exhibit  from 
Lake  county,  fifteen  by  T.  it.  Ball  and  one  by  «J  Underwood. 
The  Memorial  Records  for  this  year  are  few. 
1.  Mrs.  Belshaw,  born  Aug.  6,  1821,  coming  into  tin's 
county  about  1844,  then  Miss  Jones,  teaching  for  h  time  in  the 
log  school  house  near  the  present  town  of  LoweJI  and  in  the 
log  school  house  near  the  present  Pine'  Grove-,  married  to 
Mr.  Wm.  Belshaw  of  Pine  Grove,  an  early  resident  in  the  coun- 
ty, the  mother  of  three  sons  and  three  daughters,  died  in  her 
houie  at  Lowell  Tuesday  evening,  Feb.  28,  1893,  in  the  69th 
year  of  her  age.  She  was  a  member  for  some  years,  until  it 
disbanded,  of  the  West  Creek  Baptist  church. 

2  Mr.  Richard  Fancher,  one  of  the  oldest  inhabitants  of 
the  county,  win;  selected  his  claim  here  in  1831,  who  became  a 
resident  here  in  March,  1835,  giving  name  lo  the  Fair  Ground 
lake,  born  Nov.  TO,  1799,  died  of  old  age  one  month  ago  to-day, 
July  19,  1893,  being  nearly  94  years  of  age.  There  are  none 
living,  that  were  men,  that,  were  pioneers  here  before  him,  and 
he  is  the  last  one  to  leave  us  of  those  whose  names  are  found 
as  actual  settlers  in  1835.  There  are  some  living  wdio  were 
children  then,  some  who  were  members  of  those  very  early 
pioneer  families,  but  none  who  were  heads  of  families  then. 
He  was  the  last,  lie  had  been  in  the  county  for  fifty-eight 
years. 

3.  Died  at  3  A.  M.,  Saturday,  July  29,  1893,  at  his  home 
in  Kankakee,  111..  Mr.  Edwin  B.  Warriner,  son  of  lion.  Lewis 
Warriner,  who  was  a  sett  ler  at  Cedar  Lake  in  1837.  Edwin 
B.  Warriner  removed  to  Kankakee  county  in  the  fall  of  1855, 
and  was  for  many  years  one  of  the  active,  useful,  business 
men  of  Kankakee.  1  may  take,  in  this  report,  the  liberty  io 
sny  he  was  my  one  life  long  friend.  We  were  born  in  th  .same 
town  in  Massachusetts  in  the  same  winter,  we  came  to  Uedar 
Lake  the  same  year,  and  have  exemplified  as  nearly    as    seems 


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to  be  here  possible  the  truth  of   the   old    Latin    saying,   True 
friendship  is  everdttrmg—  Vera  amicitia  est  zempiterna. 

I  saw  his  form  laid  away  to  rest.  He  sleeps  in  a  spacious, 
well  kept  city  cemetery,  where  his  kindred  can  look  upon  his 
last  resting  place;  but  the  earth  forms  of  his  mother,  of  his 
young"  sister,  and  of  his  brother,  are  somewhere  in  that  hill 
side  not  far  south  from  the  summer  residence  built  by  Mrs. 
Biggs,  on  the  east  side  of  the  Lake  of  Red  Cedars,  and  no  hu- 
man being  can  tell  where.  Some  of  us  have  not  done  all  that 
we  could  have  done  in  preserving  from  desecration  and  obliv- 
ion the  resting  places  of  our  pioneer  dead. 

WEATHER   RECORD.     1892—1893. 


The  autumn  of  1892  very  pleasant.  No  general  frost  un- 
til the  full  moon  in  October  and  then  not  a  hard  one.  Leaves 
kept  green  and  flowers  were  blooming  till  October.  Many  In- 
dian summer  days.  Small  horse  flies  quite  abundant  in  Nov- 
ember. Not  much  fall  rain.  First  week  in  November  cloudy 
and  wet.  Nov.  7,  20  degrees  F.  Dec.  25,  quite  cold.  Two 
inches  of  snow.  Dec.  26,  Monday  S  to  12  degrees  below  zero. 
For  some  days  zero  weather.  Dec.  29,  ice  at  Cedar  Lake  elev- 
en inches.  Dec.  30  and  31  milder.  Jan.  1,  1893,  quite  mild. 
Monday  colder.  Tuesday,  Jan.  3,  mercury  below  zero.  A 
good  ice  harvest.  Jan.  G,  below  zero.  Jan.  10,  10  below  zero. 
At  zero  or  below  all  day.  Some  four  inches  of  snow,  poor 
sleighing.  Jan.  11.  Wednesday.  Zero.  Snowing.  A  fine- 
flaked  snow  from  S.  E.  Steady  snow  fall  all  day.  Wind  at 
evening  about  east.  Flakes  larger.  At  1  P.  M.  7  degrees. 
Piospect  good  for  sleighing  now.  Jan.  13.  4  degrees  below 
zero  at  8  A.  M.  At  noon  2  below.  '  Jan.  15.  14  decrees  below 
at.  8.  A.  M.  4  degrees  below  ;it  noon.  Jan.  1(>  &  17at  8o*clock 
10  degrees  below.  1 1  grew  wanner.  Jan.  24,  a  diiving  S.  E. 
snow  storm.  Snow  in  the  woods  a  fool  deep,  Jan.  28,  com- 
menced "January  thaw."  Feb.' 4,  6  decrees  below  /♦  ro.  Feb. 
5  &  6,  rain.  Turned  to  snow.  I'Yb.  7.  10  degrees  In  low  in  ihe 
early  morning.     Cold  W.  wind.     8,  roads  very    icy.      9,    snow 


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falling.  Feb.  16.  At  7,  22  degrees.  Pleasant  witiler  weather. 
Sleighing  quite  good  iiJl  Feb.  25.  A  thaw.  Feb.  28.  A  cold 
west  wind  Stopped  the  thaw.  The  snow  had  heel]  limning  oft" 
in  streams,  Monday  27,  yet  Hie  sleighing  was  good  nearly  all 
the  way  from  Lansing  to  Hohart,  15  miles.  Sleighing  this 
winter  good,  as  there  was  an  icy  crust  under  the  snow  for  weeks 
and  little  or  no  blockade  caused  by  drifts.  In  March  some 
cold  weather,  some  snow,  some  rain.  March  22,  an  ''equinoc- 
tial''* rain  nearly  all  day.  23,  a  wet  day,  morning  foggj*,  mer- 
cury 46  degrees.  '27,  londs  very  muddy.  April  opened  with 
pleasant  spring  weather,  fanners  sowing  oats,  and,  April  nth, 
roads  dusty.  April  7,  dry.  ground  in  excellent  condition  for 
work,  mercury  above  summer  heat,  vegetation  milting  forth 
rapidly.  April  10  &  11  showers  in  the  night.  17,  woods 
abound  in  wild  flowers.  April  19,  rain  in  the  night,  fierce  S. 
E.  wind.  20,  rain.  21,  rainy,  wild  S.  Some  snow,  some  rain, 
and  wet  weather  till  May.  May  1.  Quite  pleasant.  Worlds' 
Fair  opened.  5,  ground  keeps  very  wet.  May  10,  mercury 
has  again  reached  summer  heat.  May  11,  Thursday.  After- 
noon a  heavy  rain  fall.  The  Bt-sor  overflowed  its  banks  east 
of  Main  street,  covered  to  quite  a  depth  all  hie  north  end  of 
Ea6t  street,  reaching  to  the  Fried  rich  barn,  flowing  over  the 
sidewalk  on  Goldsboro  street,  the  highest  water  in  Crown  Point 
of  the  year.  May  15,  cherry  and  pear  blossoms  opening,  also 
peach.  Dandelions  in  blossom.  May  1(3  summer  weather 
commenced.  June  10,  a  heavy  rain  fall  at.  Shelby  and  gener- 
ally over  the  county.  The  lightning  struck  the  hotel  ice  house 
and  burned  it  to  the  ground.  This  the  last  general  rain  for 
nine  weeks.  Jul  y  16,  a  shower  at  Crown  Point  and  at  Ham 
mond  but  no  rain  at  Highland  and  a  sprinkle  only  at  Griffith. 
Mercury  some  days  of  this  dry  weather  above  100  degrees  P., 
but  generally  cool  nights,  northerly  winds  prevailing. 
This  the  World's  Fair  summer. 


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REPORT.    AUGUST  18,  1894. 


^Vp.E  held  our  last  anniversary  amid  the  golden  opportuni- 
ties, which  were  afforded  so  easily,  to  us  of  Lake  coun- 
ty, for  seeing  the  wonders  of  nature  and  art,  the  won- 
ders achieved  by  the  skill  of  man,  and  the  vegetable,  the  min- 
eral, the  animal  productions  called  into  existence  by  the  pow- 
er of  God,  displayed  in  such  magnificence  and  beauty  at  the 
noted  Columbus  Exposition  which  was  held  in  Jackson  Park. 
The  hundreds  of  thousands  continued  to  cross  our  borders  on 
the  long  and  crowded  trains  until  the  Fair  gates  were  closed 
in  the  early  autumn.  We  cannot  reasonably  expect  that  again 
as  many  human  beings  will  pass  across  our  county  limits  in  a 
single  month  as  there  were  crossing  it  back  and  forth  in  Sep- 
tember of  1893.  , 

That  noted  year  closed.  And  we  come  together  for  an- 
other anniversary,  having  passed  now  the  first  decade  in  our 
second  half  century  of  occupancy.  We  date  our  settlement  in 
1834.  We  held  our  first  semi-centennial  in  1884.  And  already 
it  is  1894.  The  Nineteenth  century  is  rapidly  rushing  to  an 
end.  Xot  all  who  were  active  citizens  one  year  ago  are  living 
now;  but  we  who  remain,  and  the  new  generation  of  the  sons 
and  daughters  of  Lake  who  are  crowding  on,  have  abundant 
cause  this  day  for  devout  gratitude  1o  God. 

This  war  lias  been  no  ordinary  year,  although  vastly  un- 
like the  last.  Over  all  our  hind  it  has  been  a  year  of  uncer- 
tainty, «>f  unrest,  of  some  conflict ;  and,  to  some  extent,  in  all 
these  we  of  Lake  county  have  shared.  There  have  been  the 
remarkable  inactivity  of  the  American  Congress,  the  great  stag- 
nation in  mining  and  manufactures,  the  Pullman  boycott,    the 


Debhs'  strikes,  the  miners'  strikes,  the  assassination  of  the  re- 
tired Frencli  president,  and  a  war  commenced  between  the  two 
great  powers  of  Eastern  Asia,  China  and  Japan.  In  our  nar- 
row limits  we  have  frit  but  Utile    change    from    these    events 

!        which  have  made,  this  year  memorablej  but  in  the    north    part 

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of  the  county  for  a  time  the  civil  officers  were  unable  to  main- 
tain law  and  order,  and  United  States  Troops  and  some  eight 
hundred  state  militia  upheld  the  law  and  secured  railroad 
transportation  and  the  passage  of  Ihe  mails  in  the  city  of  Ham- 
mond, quelling  disturbances  also  in  East  Chicago  and  Whit- 
ing. For  a  time  in  Crown  -Point,  on  both  roads,  no  trains 
could  go  through  to  Chicago,  and  passenger  trains  Jay  by  here 
for  many  hours,  reminding  us  of  the  scenes  during  our  great 
snow  blockade.  The  tents  of  the  soldiers, 'the  soldiers  them- 
selves on  guard  duty,  the  presence  of  the  soldiers  with  their 
arms  in  various  places,  the  guard  around  the  Erie  station,  the 
gatling  gun  on  the  platform,  caused  Hammond  to  appear  for 
a  number  of  days  as  a  city  under  martial  law.  It  %vas  in  our 
county  a  new  experience  to  have  almost  a  regiment  of  soldiers 
under  arms  to  preserve  order,  and  to  be  able  to  reach  the  Erie 
station  passengrr  room  only  as  one  passed  the  sentry  and  the 
corpora]  of  the  guard.  We  may  well  hope  that  such  times 
will  not  often  come.  No  mail,  no  travel,  no  daily  papers,  no 
intercourse  with  Chicago.  .Some  of  the  Crown  Point  grocery- 
men  had  supplies  brought  out  from  Chicago  by  teams  as  was 
customary  before  railroads  were  built.  Happily  this  condi 
tion  of  things  did  not  last  long.  The  President  u£  the  United 
States  exercised  his  authority,  the  governors  of  Indiana  and 
Illinois  asserted  theirs,  troops  poured  into  Chicago,  and  the 
gathering  of  mobs,  the  lawlessness,  the  destruction  of  proper- 
ty, the  impossibility  of  moving  trains  in  or  out  of  1  he  city  ceas- 
ed. Notwithstanding  the  uncertainty  in  the  commercial  hik! 
manufacturing  worlds,  work  has  gone  forwaid  in  the  county 
and  some  improvements  have  been  made.  'The  large  public 
school  building  at  Hammond,  after  some  delay  in  the*  fall,  was 
at  length  completed,  and  was  dedicated  with  quite  imposing 
exercise's  Friday  evening,  March  2,  1894.  The  following  is  a 
copy  of  the 


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PROGRAMME. 

1.  Piano  Solo— La  Baladine,      -      Lysberg  Op.  51 

•  Mrs.  L.  A.  Lawrence. 

2.  Prayer,         -  -  -        Eev.  A.  H.  DeLong. 

3.  Quartet,     -        \  *ttMD*   Ho^TON'    Manoteb» 
^  /  Messrs   Lly,  Griffin. 

4.  Presentation  of  Keys  of  Building, 

Dr.  W.  W.  Merrill,  Trustee. 

5.  "Response,        -        -        -      Sup't  W.  C.  Belman. 

6.  Solo — "The  Song  that  Reached  My 

Heart."         .         _         .         -         Jordan. 
Mrs.  S.  H.  Manchee. 

7.  Dedicatory  Address, 

Dr.  W.  L.  Bryan,  State  University 

8.  Hymn, America. 

Audience,  led  by  K.  0.  T.  M.  Band. 

9.  Benediction,  -  -  Rev.  S.  W,  Phelps. 

Miss  Fay  Potter,  Pianist. 


The  building  committee  were:  "T.  Hammond,  H.  M. 
Godfrey,  Fred  iMott,  J.  Rimbach,  K.  H.  Bell,  Adam  Ebert,  P. 
Reiley,  ami  Win.  Kleihege  Sr." 

At  Hammond  the  electric  railway  lias  been  onward  to 
Whiting  and  to  South  Chicago  or  Colehour,  so  that  this  sum- 
mer passengers  could  go  into  Chicago  from  Hammond  on  the 
electric  and  elevated  roads  on  the  payment  of  four  fares. 
Some  building  but  not  very  much  has  been  done  in  North 
township. 

In  the  south  part  of  the  count}'  a  fine  school  building, 
large  and  church-like  in  its  appearance  has  been  erected  at 
Plum  Grove. 

At  Shelby  a  school  building  forty  four  feet  long  has  been 
built  this  summer,  but  not  yet  completed.  At  Crestou  also  a 
large  and  good  school  house  is  in  process  of  erection,  to  be 
ready  for  use  this  fall. 


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At  Lowell  quite  a  little  improvement  has  been  made  in 
grading  up  the  principal  business  street,  and  in  the  erection 
or  completing  of  a  large  business  building,  the  John  Hack 
block,  just  west  of  the  bank,  commenced  last  fall.  This  is 
one  of  the  best  in  the  county,  called  by  some  the  very  best. 
It  is  eighty  feet  long  and  fity- three  wide.  Mr.  Lynch,  now  oc- 
cupying the  principal  store  room,  had  ''a  grand  opening." 
There  were  given  away  forty  gallons  of  lemonade  and  one 
hundred  and  seventy-five  fans,  to  each  lady  present  one.  Mr. 
John  B.  Wilkinson,  a  sou  of  Judge  Wilkinson  who  settled  in 
March,  1835,  and  is  therefore  the  earliest  resident  left  in  the 
county  except  Mr.  Thomas  Clark,  built,  this  spring  and  sum- 
mer a  nice  residence  house  just  north  of  Mr.  C.  F.  Nelson  on 
the  township  line.  The  foundation  for  a  hotel  has  been  laid 
in  Lowell  and  other  buildings  have  been  constructed.  The 
Methodists  have  made  a  great  improvement  in  their  church 
building. 

In  Crown  rbint  some  fifteen  dwelling  houses  have  been 
erected,  (some  not  yet  quite  completed,)  good,  substantial 
buildings  all,  by  Messrs.  Witheial,  Black,  Laws,  Houk,  Sched- 
dell,  McKay,  Patton,  Kramer.  Wheeler,  Muzzall,  Monix, Bruce, 
by  Mrs.  S.  G.  Wood,  and  the  Methodist  parsonage.  Several 
more  streets  have  been  paved  with  cedar 'blocks.  It  is  claimed 
that  no  other  town  in  Indiana  of  the  same  population  has  as 
many  miles  of  paved  streets  as  Crown  Point. 

On  Monday  afternoon  of  this  week  I  visited  the  last  of  our 
new  cities,  Chicago,  Indiana,  as  it  was  named.  It  does  not  be- 
long to  the  growth  of  this  year,  but  has  not  before  found  a 
.  place  in  these  records.  It  was  built,  probably,  in  1892.  in  an- 
ticipation of  the  great  results  that  might  follow,  around  the 
south  bend  of  Lake  Michigan,  from  the  Columbus  Exposition. 
But  its  present  condition  is  evidence  that  its  founders  had  no 
prophetic  foresight.  It  is  on  the  Grand  Trunk  Kail  Road,  a 
mile  east  of  that  crossing  called  Maynard.  The  streets  as  laid 
out,  the  stakes  to  mark  the  lots,  the  plank  walks  designed  for 
side  walks,  and  nine  buildings,  all  two  stories  in  height,  con- 
stitute the  present  city.  No  animate  life  was  there,  but  a  de- 
lightful stillness  and  quietude  reigned.     The    large    unbroken 


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panes  of  glass  testified  that  no  town  boys  had  been  there. 
One  building  was  evidently  designed  for  a  hotel.  It  is  forty- 
five  feet  or  more  in  width  and  seventy -five  in  depth.  The  sec- 
ond floor  is  divided  into  abontsixteen  rooms.  From  the  grav- 
al  roof,  on  which  for  a  time  I  stood,  one  cau  overlook  many 
square  miles  of  that  flat  region.  Thousands  of  dollars  were 
expended  here.  Whether  these  buildings  will  ever  be  used, 
or  whether  a  fire  will  by  mid  by  sweep  them  away,  no  man  can 
now  foresee.  For  once  I  was  the  only  human  being  in  a,  so 
called,  young  city. 

Many  empty  houses  are  in  Griffith,  but  there  is  still  some 
life  there,  a  good  Sunday  school,  two  religious  congregations, 
and  two  occupied  school  houses;  but  its  day  for  business  pros- 
perity lias  not  yet  returned. 

The  town  of  Hobart  is  still  prosperous.  A  new  publica- 
tion has  been  started  there  called  the  American  Advocate  of 
Prohibition,  Patriotism  and  Pure  Politics.  Vol.  1.  No.  I.  July 
1,  1891.     H.  G.  Hanson  Editor  and  Publisher. 

.At  Water  Valley,  or  South  Shelby  new  buildings  have 
beeu  erected,  but  not  in  connection  with  the  proper  village  of 
Shelby,  although  the  post  office  and  the  new  dwellings  are 
over  the  Shelby  corporation  line. 

The  Hollander  neighborhood,  so  pleasantly  situated  on 
the  sandridge  road  between  Lansing  and  Highland,  improves 
from  year  to  year.  It  might  quite  well  be  called  a  village  of 
one  street  for  one  mile  and  a  half  east  of  the  State  Line.  It 
has  on  this  one  street  two  stores,  a  post  office,  a  church,  a  rail- 
road stopping  place,  a  school  house  with  two  rooms,  and  very 
many  dwelling  house*,  nearly  all  occupied  by  industrious, 
prosperous  Hollander  families.  The  eastern  store  where  is 
the  post  office  is  kept  by  Mr.  Minister.  A  mile  and  a  half 
north  and  a  half  mile  east  of  this  office  is  still  a  post  office 
kept  in  a  saloon.  Xo  young  lady,  no  child,  can  go  to  this  post 
office  without  going  into  the  saloon  room.  So  far  as  I  know 
the  other  saloon  pc>st  offices  of  the  county  have  been  slightly 
separated.      Public  sentiment  has  not  reached  this  one. 

There  have  beeu  this  year  two  golden  wedding  celebrations. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  L.  Hipsley  celebrated    their   fiftieth    annivei- 


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sary  Nov.  23,  1893  in  their  home  near  Palmer.  About  forty 
guests  present,  among  them  their  two  sons,  their  one  daugh- 
ter, and  eight  grandchildren. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  A.  Chirk  celebrated  their  golden  wedding 
Dec.  7,  1893,  having  been  married  in  Lake  county,  and  having 
had  a  home  in  the  county  for  fifty  full  years.  Very  many 
guests  were  present,  both  in  the  afternoon  and  evening,  and 
the  occasion  was  one  of  marked  interest  to  all.  A  prepared 
historical  paper  was  read  by  T.  H.  Ball. 

I  had  thought  it  practicable  to  obtain  and  so  present  a 
full  report  of  the  number  of  children  in  our  county  that  attend- 
ed the  World's  Fair  in  1893,  and  I  appealed  to  the  teachers  of 
the  county  to  aid  me  in  collecting  the  figures.  Some  respond- 
ed nobly  to  my  request,  but  quite  a  number  failed  to  help  in 
this  particular.  But  the  report  is  worth  something  as  far  as 
it  goes.  I  regret  the  failure,  for  it  might  easily  have  been  per- 
fect. 

In  Hobart  township,  in  the  graded  school,  whole  number 
293,  250  visited  Jackson  Park.  In  the  other  schools  II  on-ly 
were  reported  by  two  teachers.  In  North  the  Hessville  teach- 
er reported  14,  and  in  Calumet  the  teacher  at  Ridge,  10.  In 
Ross  3  schools  reported  47,  and  in  St.  Johns  from  one  school 
were  reported  10.  In  Hanover  from  Brunswick  19  and  from 
Paisley  5.  In  Center,  from  Crown  Point,  403  whole  number. 
375  visited  the  Fair.  Two  other  schools,  12.  From  Eng'e 
Creek  township  a  quite  full  report.  Number  that  attended,  83. 
Cedar  Creek,  4  schools,  53.  West  Creek, 5 schools,  84.  Whole 
number  reported  973.  There  must  have  been  in  all  more  than 
2,000  of  our  children  that  saw  the  Columbus  Exposition.  ] 
thank  these  teachers  who  so  promptly  sent  me  reports. 

The  record  to  be  placed  here,  according  to  our  custom,  of 
those  who  have  left  the  activities  of  earth,  i*  the  following:  1. 
James  Clingan,  born  Nov.  2,  1815,  an  early  resident  in  the 
county,  from  1857  to  1861,  prominent  merchant  in  Crown 
Point,  as  late  as  1SS4  engaged  in  brick  and  tile  making.  b«1 
who  had  for  the  last  few  years  retired  from  business  life,  dud 
Nov.  11,  1893,  78  years  of  age.  For  many  years  lie  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Presbyterian  church.     He  was  a  good  citizen,  a   ita 


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voted  Christian  man.  2.  Dr.  A.  J.  Pratt,  for  bo  many  years  a 
physician  here,  died  Nov.  22,  1893,  6S  years  of  age.  He  had 
been  in  many  families  in  their  days  and  nights  of  sickness  and 
suffering,  had  brought  relief  to  many  through  his  knowledge 
of  the  healing  art,  was  very  kindly  in  his  ministrations  in  the 
homes  of  the  sick;  but  his  own  time  came  at  length  to  die.  He 
had  been  for  some  years  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian  church, 
and  was  one  of  those,  so  useful  in  any  community,  known  as 
true  Christian  physicians.  3.  James  Henry  Luther,  another 
well  known  citizen  among  us,  who  was  born  Dec.  13,  1S14,  for 
many  years  in  public  and  official  life,  a  very  earnest  member 
of  this  Association,  for  some  /ears  its  treasurer,  a  kindly  heart- 
ed and  noble  man,  having  passed  a  few  days  beyond  the  79th 
anniversary  of  his  birthday,  passed  into  the  experience  of  an- 
other, life  Dec.  18,  1893.  -I.  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Gragrg,  born  July 
28.  1823,  in  Monroe,  New  York,  who  was  married  to  John 
Gragg  at  Naples,  N.  Y.,  Sept.  15,  1811,  who  came  to  Lakecoun- 
ty  in  1851,  a  member  of  the  Baptist  church  at  Lowell,  died 
!<Vb.  20,  1891,  not  quite  71  years  of  age.  5.  Henry  Woodruff, 
father  of  Mrs.  Kenney,  an  early  settler  at  Orchard  Grove,  died 
in  his, daughter's  home  Feb.  25,  1S9L  He  would  have  been, 
May  5,  S$  years  of  age.  6.  Martin  Vincent,  born  in  Schohar- 
ii. •  county,  New  York,  Sept.  3,  1816,  Married  to  Miss  Mercy 
Pierce  March  4,  1837,  becoming  a  resident  of  Lake    county    in 

1811,  and  a  member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church  in  1870, 
died  at  3  o'clock  Monday  morning,  March  5,  1894,  being  77 
years  of  age.  7.  I  insert  here  the  name  of  one  of  our  true 
pioneer  women,  who  for  fome  years  had  been  a  resident  of  Ar- 
kansas, Mrs.  C.  Holton.     She  was  horn  in    East    Tennessee    in 

1812,  was  married  to  J.  W.  Holton  Dec.  17,  1829,  became  a  res- 
ident here  in  1835,  in  1871  removed  to  White  county,  Arkansas, 
and  died  at  Steven's  Creek,  at  her  daughter's  home,  March  29, 
189-1,  82  years  of  nge,  her  husband,  J.  \Y.  Holton  having  died 
Dec.  29,  \$VJ.  An  Arkansas  paper  says  that  they  made  the 
whole  trip  from  Jennings  county  to  Lake  county  in  1835  on 
horseback,  and  that  when  they  settled  here  ""tin  re  was  probab- 
ly not  a  civilizt-d  white  mail  between  them  and  thn  Pacific 
Ocean."      Wild  as  it  truly  was  here  then  it    was    not    equal    to 


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that.  8.  Elias  Ferguson,  bom  Feb.  18,  1828.  a  citizen  of 
Lowell  and  of  Crown  Point  for  many  years,  died  in  the  spring 
of  this  year,  I  think  in  April,  66  years  of  age.  9.  Mrs.  Mary 
Garrison,  born  in  New  Jersey,  a  resident  in  this  county  about 
thirty  years,  died  at  Crestou  May  18,  189-1.  82  years  of  age.  10. 
Mjs.  Julia  Ann  Taylor  was  born  Nov.  29, 1828,  and  in  the  spring 
of  1836,  when  seven  and  a  half  years  of  age  her  father,  Ado- 
nijah  Taylor,  made  his  claim  on  the  east  side  of  Cedar  Lake  and 
built  his  cabin  where  is  now  the  Binyon  hotel.  She  was  there- 
fore one  of  the  true  and  real  pioneer  children  of  Cedar  Luke, 
and  of  all  the  once  joyous  and  happy  girls  around  that  aheet 
of  water  she  remained  as  the  last  one  to  have  a  home  in  this 
county.. 

When  quite  young  she  was  married  to  O.  C.  Taylor,  lias 
lived  south  of  Cedar  Lake  and  at  Creston,  living  long  enough 
to  see  some  twenty  grandchildren  and  a  few  great  grandchild- 
ren. She  was  a  pleasant,  winsome  child,  an  attractive  girl,  an 
active,  useful,  motherly  woman,  a  member  of  the  Methodist 
church.  She  died  May  21,  1894,  only  sixty-five  and  a  half 
years  of  age,  having  lived  in  this  county  fifty-eight  years.  Six 
generations  in  her  line  have  lived  and  died,  or  are  living  still, 
in  these  fifty-eight  years  around  the  Red  Cedar  Lake.  11. 
Herman  C.  Beckman,  born  June  3,  1822,  coming  to  this  coun- 
try from  Europe  in  September,  1846,  married  in  1852,  coming 
into  this  county  and  begiuning  business  life  as  a  merchant  at 
Hanover  Center  in  1855,  removing  his  home  and  store  after- 
wards to  Brunswick,  elected  county  commissioner  in  1867,  post- 
master at  Brunswick  for  twenty-nine  years,  died  at  his  home 
Thursday  morning,  July  5,  1891,  being  72  years  of  age.  Of 
him  it  may  well  be  said,  as  of  Mr.  J.  H.  Luther,  that  he  was  a 
kindly  hearted  and  noble  man,  and  the  Lake  County  Star  well 
says  that  "By  his  death  Luke  county  loses  one  of  her  best, 
law-abiding  citizens."  Of  these  two  whose  names  are  placed 
together  here  it  may  trulj*  be  said,  that  he  who  had  these,  the 
one  a  spiritualist,  the  other  an  agnostic,  ns  his  persona]  and 
business  friends,  an  did  the  Historical  Secretary  of  this  Asso- 
ciation, had  two  as  good  and  reliable  friends  as  any  man  need 
hope  to  have.      What  men  are  in  character  does  not  depend  up- 


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on  what  they  may  call  themselves  or  what  they  may  be   called 
by  others. 

12.  The  last  record  to  be  placed  here  is  the  name  and 
death  of  Mrs.  M.J.  Pearce  of  Eagle  Creek  township.  Mrs. 
Pearce,  Margaiet  J.  Dinwiddie,  was  born  in  Ohio,  June 5, 1818, 
and  as  one  of  the  sisters  of  J.  W.  Dinwiddie,  was  one  of  the 
young  pioneer  women  of  our  county,  scarcely  out  of  girlhood 
indeed  when  the  incidents  in  her  life  took  place  connected 
with  the  Indians  at  Indian-town,  as  recorded  in  "Lake  Coun- 
ty, 1872,"  page  75.  In  1840  she  was  married  to  Michael  Peaice 
and  became  mistress  of  the  home  east  of  Plum  Grove  where 
she  lived  until  Aug.  8,  1893,  when  quite  unexpectedly  to  her 
children  she  quietly  passed  away  from  earth  in  the  77th  year 
of  her  age.  As  might  be  expected  from  the  incidents  of  her 
early  womanhood,  she  has  been  a  courageous,  cheerful,  spright- 
ly woman,  a  good  and  faithful  mother  and  friend.  She  was  a 
member  of  the  United  Presbyterian  church  at  Hebron. 

Of  these  twelve  whose  death  has  now    been    placed    upon 
our  record  I  repeat  as  an  item  of  interest  their  ages:  78,  6S,  79, 
,  70,  85,  77,  82,  Go,  82,  65,  73,76.     The  sum  of  these  is    900   thus 
making  the  average-75  years. 

Of  the  further  history  which  we  have  this  year  made  and 
are  still  making  there  is  not  much  more  for  this  record. 

The  season  lias  been  characterized  as  was  last  year  by 
freedom  from  severe  summer  storms.  It  has  been  in  the  cen- 
ter of  the  county  quite  dry,  no  rain,  except  some  little  sprinkles, 
from  the  last  of  June  to  the  eleventh  of  August.  The  gardens 
and  potatoes  and  corn  and  pastures  have  therefore  suffered  for 
the  want  of  moisture.  Put  over  all  the  south  part  of  the  coun- 
ty rain  in  July  was  quite  abundant.  The  oat  crop  of  the 
county  lias  been  good,  the  iiay  crop  quite  fair,  and  in  the  south 
part  of  the  county  the  corn  is  promising.  More  fruit  has  been 
raised  this  year  than  there  was  last,  yet  the  apple  crop  is  not 
abundant. 

But  compared  with  the  many  suffering  and  needy  millions 
of  the  land  we  of  Lake  county  have  cause  for  abundant  grati- 
tude to  God. 


WEATHER  RECORD.     1893— 1S94. 


^"pf'HE  record  for  the  autumn  commences  with  Aug.  28.  In 
W(%  the  evening  a  cold  N.  wind,  becoming  quite  strong. 
(The  papers  give  accounts  of  a  fearful  hurricane  at  this 
time  on  the  Atlantic  coast,  causing  great  destruction,  and  of  a 
fierce  storm  on  Lake  Michigan.)  \\'-e  felt  but  little  of  this 
storm.  Wednesday,  Aug.  30,  a  light  frost  in  parts  of  the  coun- 
ty this  morning.  In  September  coo]  days,  then  hot.  smoke 
and  red  sun  sets,  a  sultry  night,  everything  very  dry,  till  Sept. 
.12.  Then,  at  noon,  showers  commenced,  extending  over  the 
county  which  had  had  no  general  rain  since  June  10.  The 
highland  pastures  had  become  completely  dry.  Cows  requir- 
ed feeding  as  in  November.  September  13,  11,  hot.  At  2  1\  M. 
96°  F.  Sept.  22.  A  heavy  cloud  hank  wasseen  in  the  morningin 
the  west  and  N.  \V.  It  rose  up  slowly  with  lightning  flashing 
in  its  dark  folds.  It  gave  us  some  rain,  but  its  force  passed 
north  of  us,  over  Jackson  Park,  and  was  there  the  worst  storm 
since  April,  one  of  the  worst  the  World's  Fair  buildings  ex- 
perienced Here  the  storm  was  not  severe,  but  the  clouds 
looked  very  "angry."  Sept.  26.  A  white  frost.  Ice.  29.  A 
white  frost.  Sept.  closed  rainy.  First  part  of  October  show- 
ery, rainy,  grass  growing.  October  29.  Ground  frozen  slightly. 
November  was  rather  wet.  Some  rain,  some  snow,  some  Indi- 
an summer  days.  24,  mercury  4C  F.  29,  40  degrees.  Dec.  1, 
5  degrees  below  zero  at  sunrise.  Snow.  Sleighs  running. 
Dec.  3.  Snow  a  fool  deep.  Mercury  j-roing  down.  4.  At  5 
A.  M.,  IS  degrees  below  zero  at  Mrs.  Marvin's.  At  7  A.  M..  10 
degrees  below  at  Lowell.  At  Crown  Point  5  degrees  below 
after  sunrise.  December  5.  30  degrees.  At  noon  35  degrees. 
The  weather  variable  through  the  month.  Dec. 21,  roads  mud- 
dy. December  22,  9:20  A.  M.  a  shower,  bright  sunshine,  a 
bright  rain-bow  with  its  eastern  end  on  tlie  horizon  due  north. 
An  uncommon  sight.  At  noon  52  degrees  F.  Dec.  23.  roads 
muddy.  Evening  meeting  at  Shelby  without  fire  in  the  school 
room.     Mild,     December  24, 25,   20,   27,    pleasant,    mild.      28, 


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farmers  plowing.  29,  a  sail  boat  out  on  Cedar  Lake.  The  ice 
had  been  seven  inches  thick.  Jan  1,1894  A  delightful, spring- 
like morning,  Plowing  continued  till  January  7.  Then  frost 
again  going  into  the  ground.  January  17.  plowing  again. 
Roads  good.  23,  ground  again  frozen.  25,  mercury  10  degrees 
below  zero.  Jan.  31,  ice  harvest  again.  Six  inches.  Feb.  7,  a 
thaw.  Snow  melting.  8,  heavy  fog.  Rain  came.  Mud.  9.  a 
thunder  shower.  Feb.  12,  a  snow  storm.  \Yind*X.  E.  Quite 
a  blizzard.  At  noon,  24  degrees.  Snow  very  penetrating. 
Sifting  in  everywhere.  Drifting  badly.  So  severe  t lie  storm 
that  of  73  pupils  in  the  high  school  room  at  Crown  Point  only 
about  20  met  the  teacher  in  the  afternoon.  The  wind  very 
strong.  At  sunset  about  24  degrees.  Had  the  mercury  been 
much  lower  the  storm  would  have  been  terrible.  Feb.  13,  at 
noon  32  degrees.  The  wind  has  ceased.  The  storm  is  over. 
The  drifts  are  very  deep.     The  rail  roads  are  blockaded.      Feb. 

16.  Bright  sunshine.     5  degrees.     At  noon  24  degrees.      Feb. 

17.  A  strong  S.  wind.  The  snow  seems  all  turning  into  wat- 
er. Light  showers  IS,  snow  siill  melting.  20,  thaw  over. 
21,  5  z  below  zero.  22,  in  the  early  morning,  zero.  2o,  the 
same,  but  u  thaw  began.  26,  at  noon  40  degrees.  27,  33  de- 
grees, noon  47  degrees.  A  eaterpiller  out  on  the  sidewalk. 
March  1,  snown  nearly  gone  except  in  the  deep  drifts.  6  &  7, 
rainy.  March  8,  robins  here.  March  mostly  a  m.ild,  spring 
month.  April  variable  as  usual,  but  a  mild  month.  April  16, 
mercury  reached  67  degrees.  Spring  flowers  in  abundance  at 
Cedar  Lake.  Showers  along  and  mud.  21,  grass  growing. 
24,  dandelion  blossoms  in  abundance.  27,  strawberry  blos- 
soms. 28,  pear,  cherry,  and  plum  trees  in  quite  full  bloom, 
and  some  peach  blossoms  open.  29,  things  are  growing  rap- 
idly. May  opened  with  showery  weather  Vegetation  grow- 
ing rapidly.  May  18.  a  light  thunder  storm.  At  noon  a  cold, 
very  severe  wind  storm  came  from  the  north,  blowing  off  much 
fruit,  blowing  down  trees,  breaking  down  pea  vines,  causing 
some  destruction  to  fruits  and  vegetables.  The  Chicago  pa- 
pers said  a  hurricane  swept  (\o\\  n  on  ( 'hicago  from  Manitoba. 
The  storm  lasted  with  us,  but  ivt  so  severe,  four  days:  No 
such  storm  foj-  .several  years.     It  swept  orer   a    large   aie.i    L<f 


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country,  in  the  far  north  giving  sleighing.  June  quite  a  show- 
ery,  warm  month,  10  &  15,  %  degree-,  and  from  7  to  14  very 
smoky  air.  July  quite  a  hot  mouth,  18,  at  1  P.  M.,  102 degrees 
F.,  some  showers,  some  dry  Weather.  July  31,  h round  Crown 
Point  very  dry.  Aug.  8,  99  degrees.  No  rain  yet.  Aug.  11, 
rain.  It  falls  quietly,  delightfully.  The  earth  and  the  vege- 
tation seem  to  drink  the  moisture  with  gladness.  Note.  The 
record  for  the  year  was  a  daily  record  which  is  here  condens- 
ed. 


REPORT.    AUGUST  28, 1895. 


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; 

%^g  S  this  Association  was   organized    July   24,    1875   and    a 

JjjsF>  meeting,  our  first  annual  meeting,  was  held  September 
->"">  25,  1875,  this  is  our  twenty-first  annual  meeting  al- 
i ..  though  only  the  twentieth  anniversary  of  our  organization. 

Our  twenty  fifth  will  therefore  come  in  the  year  1900,  the 
year  in  which  there  is  expected  to  be  a  world's  fair  at  Paris. 

Dates  and  past  and  coming  events  indicate  to  us  how  rap- 
idly time  is  flying.  Well  has  Time  been  represented  as  having 
a  scythe,  an  hour  glass,  and  wings. 

The  year  that  closes  with  us  now,  as  did  the  years  that 
have  passed,  calls  upon  us  for  gratitude  and  praise  to  our 
great  and  good  Father  in  the  heavens  for  the  protection  grant- 
ed to  us  and  the  blessings  bestowed  upon  us.  While  some 
are  absent,  many  of  us  yet  remain  to  interchange  our  greet- 
ings and  review  our  lengthening  past.  As  our  anniversary  was 
held  last  year  Aug.  18th,  the  first  event  to  be  reported,  in  {he 
order  of  time,  is  tne  following  account  of  exercises  at  Plum 
Grove.  "On  Saturday  evening,  August  25,  [894,  the  new  school 
building  at  Plum  Grove  was  opened  to  the  citizens  of  that 
neighborhood.  The  house  is  quite  large  for  an  ungraded 
school,  is  well  constructed,  and  is  without  question  a  more  than 
ordinarily  fine  looking  building.  It  is  neatly  furnished  with 
single  desks  for  forty-five  scholars. 


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A cross  the  street  from  the  new  building,  <3ii  the  grounds 
of  Hon.  Jerome  Dinwiddle,  our  late  representative  and  candi- 
date for  re-election,  was  held  a  lawn  ice-cream  and  cake  social. 
The  tables  were  spread  under  an  awning  forty  feet  long,  beau- 
tifully decorated  and  lighted  with  Japanese  lanterns,  reflec- 
tors and  common  lanterns  furnishing  the  light  for  the  grounds; 
while  a  World's  Fair  camping  tent  furnished  the  needed  shel- 
ter for  those  freezing  the  cream  and  supplying  the  tables. 
The  view  from  the  street  was  beautiful.  The  lawn  was  ample 
in  size,  and  on  it,  to  the  credit  of  the  young  men  of  Plum 
Grove  it  is  here  recorded,  there  was  no  cigar,  there  was  breath- 
ed with  the  pure,  though  smoky  air  no  tobacco  smoke.  About 
eighty  persons  were  present.  The  recreations  were  quiet  and 
pleasant,  as  might  be  expected  in  a  neighborhood  of  so  much 
cultivation. 

The  proceeds  were  to  procure  chandeliers  for  the  school 
room,  and  soon  the  young  people  propose  to  secure    an    organ. 

On  Sunday  evening  the  first  religious  services  were  held 
in  that  very  pleasant  and  commodious  audience  room,  where 
the  public  school  is  soon  to  open,  fifty  persons  attending  this 
openiug  service.  Connected  with  the  old  school  house  are 
many  pleasant  memories  of  school  life,  of  social,  literary,  and 
religious  gatherings.  The  associations  to  be  linked  with  the 
new  one  are  yet  in  the  future." 

New,  large,  nice  school  houses  were  built  this  summer  at 
Shelby  also  and  at  Creston,  which  were  occupied  early  in  the 
fall,  the  first  religious  services  having  been  held  in  the  one  at 
Creston  October  7,  1894. 

The  next  lecord  is  concerning  the  Sunday-school  organ- 
ization of  the  county.  On  Wednesday  Aug.  29,  189-1,  the  Lake 
County  Sabbath  School  Convention,  organized  September  16, 
1805,  was  changed  to  the  Lake  County  Sunday  School  Union, 
with  a  new  constitution,  a  new  object,  and  a  new  time  of  hold- 
ing anniversary  meetings.  "The  AwaUener,"  the  State  S.  S. 
periodical,  says:  "a  new  constitution  was  adopted  and  allegi- 
ance to  the  State  Association  was  pledged.  This  action"  the 
Awakener  adds,  "marks  an  epoch  in  the  Sunday  School  history 
of  Lake  county."     And    of    course,    with    these    four    changes 


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made,  a  new  name,  a  new  constitution,  a  new  object,  a  new 
time  for  the  animal  meeting, —  one  only  of  the  original  mem- 
bers of  the  Convention  remaining, —  the  historian  is  authorized 
to  date  from  this  Awakener  "epoch",— Aug.  29,  1894-  the  be- 
ginning of  a  new  organization  and  therefore  the  closing  up  of 
the  old.  The  "Convention"  Inn!  done  its  work  and  it  was  a 
fitting  time  for  its  close  to  come.  The  "Union"  has  its  work 
yet  to  do.  It  is  true  of  many  things,  "The  old  order  chang- 
eth."  On  Sunday  July  1,  181)4,  there  was  closed  up,  (with 
children's  day  exercises  in  which  Miss  Minnie  Barron  of  Mich- 
igan City,  Miss  Georgia  E.  Ball  and  T.  II.  Hall  of  Crown  Point, 
took  part,)  without  any  recognition  of  the  fact  at  the  time,  the 
Cedar  Lake  Union  Sunday  School,  after  an  existence  of  more 
than* fifty  years,  one  only  of  the  original  members  being  pres- 
ent. 

The  change  in  the  county  organization  has  left,  this  day, 
the  last  Wednesday  in  August,  so  long  in  our  county  ;m  anni- 
versary day,  open  for  the  meeting  of  our  Association  to  day. 


Golden  Wedding  Anniversaries. 

§£|5£»HE   following  list  gives  the  names  of    those    found    living 
life,     in  the  county  up  to  December  25th.  1891,  who  had    been 
^        married  more  than  fifty  vents. 

1.  James  Hildreth  horn  in  Virginia,  May  19,  1810,  and 
Khoda  Griffin,  born  in  Hamilton,  New  Fork,  April  16,  1815, 
were  married  Ootober  24,  ISoO. 

2.  John  Binyon  hot  n  in  Tennessee  August  16,  1816,  hihI 
Nnuey  Hughes,  bom  in  Kentucky  June  8,  1822,  were  married 
June  14,  1SH7.  They  came  into  Porter  enmity  in  1  S  10.  mill  in- 
to Lake,  to  Plum  Grove,  in  is 47. 

3.  l>r.  James  A.  'Wood  find  wife  of  Lowell  have  lived  in 
this  county  for  some ii fly  four  years  and  were  married  as  early 
as  lb37,  settling  then  in  Potter  comity. 

4.  M.  A.  Ualsted  ami  wife  of  Lowell,  who  have  lived  in 
this  county  nearly  fifty  years,  were  married  May  II.  IM2. 


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5.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Cyrus  M.  Mason  were  married  in  Lake 
county,  July  25,  1843,  both  pioneers,  Mr.  Mason  being  at 
Christmas  time  about  84  years  old. 

6.  Dr.  Wilkinson  and  wife  of  Crown  Point,  married  more 
than  fifty  one  years  ago,  but  residents  of  this  county  only 
about  10  years. 

7.  Mi.  J.  L.  Hipsley  and  wife  married  Nov.  23.  1843. 

8.  Mr.  Hugh  Boyd  and  wife  married  Nov.  29, 1843.  They 
have  three  children  and  thirteen  grandchildren,  and  in  all 
these  fifty-one  years  death  has  never  come  into  their,  now 
three,  family  homes.  The  Boyd  family  came  into  this  county 
in  September  1855. 

9.  Mr.  \Y.  A.  Clark  and  wife,  married  in  this  county  Dec. 
7,  1$43. 

10.  Mr.  Jacob  Wise  and  wife  were  married  December  21. 
1813. 

11.  Mr.  Amos  Brannon  and  wife  married  Sept.  18,    1844. 

12.  Rev.  II.  Wason  and  wife,  married  Oct.  29,  1S44. 

13.  Mr.  Daniel  H.  Strong  and  wife  married  Oct.  30.1844. 


NOTABLE  BIRTH  DAY   PARTIES. 

August  27,  1894,  about  sixty  neighbors  and  friends  cele- 
brated the.  70th  anniversary  of  the  birth  of  Mrs.  Strong,  wife 
of  Daniel  II.  Strong,  of  West  Creek  township,.  Mrs.  Strong 
received  from  her  friends  many  presents.  Afters  the  dinner 
and  the  recreations  short  addresses  were  given  by  Messrs.  G. 
F.  Sutton  and  W.  H.  Pixley  and  Mrs.  Wm.  Edgerton. 

June  8,  1895,  at  the  home  of  her  daughter  Mrs.  Charles 
Sigler,  was  celebrated  the  73d  birth  day  anniversary  of  Mrs. 
Binyon,  wife  of  Mr  John  Binyou.  Some  forty  elderly  ladies 
were  invited  to  this  festival,  twenty  live  of  them  from  Lowell 
and  its  vicinity 

There  was  a  liirtlrday  party  at  the  home  of  Mr.  and  Mr>>. 
Henry  Surprise  July  12,  1895,  this  I  wing,  the  fifty-fourth  anni- 
versary of  the  birth-day  of  .Mrs.  Surprise  a  sister  of  IV.  11  ill  of 
Creston.      About  eighty  relatives  and  friends  weie  preset  I J  and 


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made  the  day  memorable  for  the  Surprise  family    where    Mr 
Hill  now  makes  her  home. 


*  VARIOUS  IMPROVEMENTS. 

Some  iron  bridges  have  been  put  in  this  year  on  roads  in 
the  south  part  of  the  county.  A  new  school  house  h;is  been 
built  at  the  Bt&icombe  corner,  and  a  large,  fine  school  build- 
ing, similar  to  the  one  at  Plum  Grove  has  been  built  at  Egypt. 

Lowell  has  been  making  great  improvements  within  the 
past  year.  Street  grading  and  improving  with  cinders  mid 
gravel  have  changed  i'ery  much  in  two  years  the  main  thor- 
oughfare, in  the  calendar  year  of  1891  thirty -one  dwelling 
houses  were  erected  in  Lowell  and  four  business  houses.  Owe 
of  these,  called  the  Hack  block,  has  been  reported,  and  to  this 
an  addition  quite  large  is  this  year  being  built.  The  Spindler 
block  was  built  in  one  month,  in  December,  1891.  It  is  SO 
feet  by  65,  with  a  hall  or  auditorium  SO  feet  by  40.  The  build- 
ing was  opened  for  business  Feb.  1,  1895,  and  the  opening  ex- 
ercises of  the  auditorium  were  held  a  few  days  afterwards. 
New  buildings  are  still  going  up  this  summer,  quite  a  num- 
ber, among  them  a  large  brick  dwelling  house  for  Mr.  Edward 
Belshaw.  While  Hobart  has  its  clay  beds  for  brick  anil  terra 
cotta,  Whiting  its  oil,  and  Hammond  its  slaughter  house, 
Lowell  has  around  it  a  very  rich  agricultural  region,  and  ;is 
the  business  center  of  nearly  three  townships  of  yet  huge  un- 
developed resources,  with  its  water-power  also,  its  prospect 
for  a  healthy  and  permanent  and  large  growth  is  very  bright. 
The  immense  fields  of  corn  this  summer,  where  but  a  lew  years 
ago  were  the  trappers'  claims,  one  alone  coveiing  two  hundred 
and  fifty  acres  of  area,  show  what  may  soon  Ik-  expected,  of 
immense  agricultural  productions,,  upon  the  in  any  thousands 
of  acres  where  the  musk-rats  and  mink  can  no  longer  tiuikr 
their  homes,  nor  even  the  thousands  of  wild  ducks  feed.  Uu 
told  agricultural  wealth  lies  in  that  broad  tuursli  wgi-Hi,  Mltl 
Lowell  is  its  proper  business  center. 


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In  North  township  some  improvements  go  on.  The  law- 
yers of  Hammond  secured  the  passage  of  a  bill  by  the  last 
legislature  giving  to  them  what  is  called  a  Superior  Court. 
The  corporate  boundaries  of  Hammond  have  been  extended 
and  Whiting  has  become  an  incorporated  town.  The  city  of 
Hammond  obtains  water  from  Lake  Michigan,  and  citizens  of 
Hammond  have  erected  a  public  bath  house  on  the  Lake. 
Efforts  have  this  summer  been  made  in  Crown  Point,  Ham- 
mond, and  Hobart  for  the  improvement  of  public  virtue.  How 
successful  they  have  been  time  will  show.  Following  the  ex- 
ample of  larger  places  Crown  Point  has  had  a  Civic  Federa- 
tion organization,  and  for  a  few  months  a  paper  has  been  pub- 
lished called  The  Christian  Citizen.  A  new  Good  Templar 
lodge  has  been  formed  with,  now,  about  eighty  members,  and 
attention  has  been  given  anew  to  the  observance  of  law  and 
to  Sabbath  keeping.  In  the  meantime  the  ''Crown  Brewing 
Company,"  I  quote  from  the  Register  of  26,  have  a  four  story 
building  about  completed,  "and  the  brewery,  which  is  the 
second  largest  in  the  State,  runs  day  and  night  with  a  capac' 
ity  of  250  barrels  of  beer  per  day;''  and  Cedar  Lake  as  a  Sun- 
day pleasure  resort,  is  quite  as  lively  as  ever.  And  so  the  ''irre- 
pressible conflict"  goes  on- 

The  paving  in  Crown  Point  last  summer  was  done  on  the 
following  streets:  Ridge,  Clark,  Raihoad,  East,  Jackson, 
North,  Court,  Joliet,  and  South;  and,  including  alleys,  the  ex- 
pense was  $45,066.84;  costing  $1.43  per  square  yard,  and  for  a 
-'running  foot'"  on  each  side  of  a  21  foot  pavement  $1.66,  and 
for  pavement  24  feet  wide  $1.90. 

Improvements  and  changes  have  gone  on  in  the  villages 
and  various  parts  of  the  county.  The  greatest  road  improve- 
ment outside  of  towns  has  been  putting  gravel  on  the  deep 
•sand  between  Ross  and  Tolleston. 

In  tnis  summer,  in  June,  a  small  division  ofttie  Tent  Brig* 
side  of  the  great  Solvation  Army  came  to  Crown  Point.  Tle-v 
(had  a  tent  that  would  accommodate  two  thousand  people  with 
good  arrangements  for  lighting  it  iti  the  evenings.  The  sold- 
iers were  evidently  under  excellent  discipline,  a  band  of  ♦■\«-m 
plurj  young  men;  i)i*»j  beld  meeiijijfs   for   two   week*;  raised 


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quite  an  amount  of  money;  and  made  a  ^om]  impression  ii|»on 
the  community.  The  evening  memorial  service  in  memory  <>f 
Mrs.  Booth  was  peculiarly  beautiful  and  impressive. 


NECROLOGIC    REPORT 

1.  Michael  Wnhl,  a  pioueer-of    Wi afield,  township,   died 

at  his  home  in  Crown  Point,  Aug-.  21,  1891,  nearly  OS  years  of 
age. 

2.  Win.  Gordon,  an  inhabitent  for  many  years  near  Hick- 
ory Point,  died  of  cancer,  August  25,  1894,  about  TO  years  of 
age. 

3.  Edwin  Joseph  Smith,  born  Aug.  3,  1832,  settling  in 
this^  county  in  1856,  died  at  his  home  in  Crown  Point,  Monday 
evening-,  Nov.  2G,  1894. 

4.  Mrs.  Mary  M.  Mason,  who  as  Mary  Farmer,  daughter 
of  Henry  Farmer,  became  a  resident  here  in  1836,then  a,  young- 

I  girl,  and  was  married  to, Cyrus  M.  Mason.  July  25,    1813,    hav- 

ing" spent  quite  a  long  life  in  this  county,  a  member  for  many 
years  of  the  Presbyterian  church,  died  at  her  home  east  of 
Crown  Poi.it  Dec,  30,  1894. 

5.  Jonathon  L.  Hipsley,  whose  golden  wedding-  anniver- 
sary was  celebrated  in  November  1893,  win*  came  to  Eagle 
Creek  Prairie  in  1852,  who  was  born  March  4,  1820,  died  Jan. 
2,  1895,  not  quite  75  years  of  age.  He  had  been  a  member  ^\' 
the  Methodist  church  since  1834,  and  was  a  well  known  and 
highly  esteemed  citizen.  , 

6.  Mrs.  Martha  Ann  Sherman,  bom  in  Ohio,  .Inly  16, 
1842,  married  to  Mr.  A.  Sherman  in  Crown  Point .  Dec .2 !,  18(50, 
died  J ati.  25,  1895. 

7.  John  Underwood,  a  pioneer  settler,  an  early  county 
commissioner,  a  fanner  for  some  years,  fond  of  rending  and 
writing",  author  of  the  poem  El  Muza,  died  at  his  llobart 
home  Feb.  17,  1895,  7(1  years  of  age. 

8.  Thomas  ( 'lark,  t  lie  last  survivor  «*f  the  family  of  Judge 
Clark,  a  family  whose  unquestioned  date  of  settlement  here 
was  February,  1835,  died  at  the  hoine  of  his  daughter,  Mrs.  (). 
G.  Wheeler,  Feb.  15,  1895,  just  sixty  \eats     at    least    williin    .» 


day  or  two,  after  his  father's  family. from  Jennings  county 
joined  Solou  Robinson's  lone  household  in  this  then  vast  soli- 
tude. He  was  born  in  Jennings  county,  Feb.  21.  1816,  and 
was  therefore  almost  79  years  of  age.  He  died  of  old  age.  We 
may  call  him  the  first  who  has  passed  away  after  a  residence 
here  of  full  sixty  years.  After  this  year  the  uumber  of  6uch 
will  increase. 

g.  John  N.  Schubert  of  Cedar  Lake,  an  eaily  settler, 
born  in  Saxony,  married  in  1819,  died  at  his  Cedar  Lake  home 
on  the  evening  of  Feb.  15,  1895.  He  left  to  represent  him  in 
the  coming  years  two 'sons,  five  daughters,  and  thirty-six 
grandchildren. 

10.  James  Hildreth,  grandfather  of  Mrs.  S.  C.  Allen  of 
Hammond,  with  whom  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hildreth  were  living, 
died  April  16  or  17,  1895,  nearly  85  years  of  age. 

11.  Mrs.  Fuller,  Hannah  Ferguson  in  childhood,  born 
April  8,  1828  in  Pennsylvania,  Erie  county,  came  with  her  par- 
ents to  this  county  in  1840,  was  married  to  Frank  Fuller,  now 
called  Senior,  April  18,  1850,  became  the  mother  of  nine  child- 
ren, and  died  in  Crown  Point  May  17,  1895. 

12.  Orrin  Pierce,  an  early  settler  east  of  iNJerrillville,  a 
citizen  well  known  to  the  older  inhabitants  of  the  county,  died 
at  his  home  on  the  Joliet  road  June  21,  1895,  about   83   yearn 

of  age. 

13.  Amos  Hornor,  who  for  many  yeare  has  been  a  regu- 
lar attendant  of  our  anniversary  meetings,  we  miss  this  year. 
He  will  come  among  us  no  more.  He  died  at  his  home  in 
Ross,  Aug.  25,  1895,  about  82  years  of  age.     He  was  born  May 

.19,1813.  He  was  mi  early  settler  west  of  Cedar  Lake.  His 
father,  David  Hornor,  and  an  older,  a  married  brother,  Thomas, 
with  one  of  the  Brown's,  probably  Jacob  L.,  visited  the  Cedar 
Lake  region  and  made  claims  in  October  and  November,  1831. 
In  September  of  1835,  these  with  four  others,  among  them 
Amos  Hornor,  came  to  Cedar  Lake,  put  up  hay  and  erected 
some  cabins  and  returned  to  Tippicanoe  county  for  their  fam- 
ilies. The  documentary  evidence  of  the  claim  register  is  per- 
fect that  David  Hornor,  Thomas  Hornor,  and  Jacob  L.  Brown 
made  their  claims  in  Octobei:  and  November,  1831,  and  that 
fchey  settled  with  their  families    in    November   of    1835,    Amos 


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Hornor  being  an  unmarried  young  man  in  his  father's  forge 
family,  whose  own  claim  was  made  ill  May  and  his  brother 
Levi's  in  June  of  1836.  The  "Amos  Horner  Point"  was  for 
years  a  landmark  for  the  settlers  near  Cedar  Lake.  Mr.  Hor- 
nor was  married  three  times.  His  first  wife  was  Miss  Mary 
White,  one  of  the  young  belles  of  Crown  Point  in  those  days, 
a  daughter  of  Mis.  Sally  White  who  afterwards  was  Mrs.  Wolf 
of  Porter  county.  Amos  Hornor  and  Mary  White  were  mar- 
ried in  Porter  county,  July  4,  1814.  She  lived  less  than  a  year. 
He  was  next  married  to  Mrs.  Sarah  R.  Brown,  a  widow,  June 
24,1849.  His  last  marriage  was  to  M  rs.  Amanda  M.  Coburn, 
a  widow,  January  10,  1892.  More  full}'  than  most  others  of 
the  earlier  settlers  here  Mr.  Hornor  retained  through  life  the 
peculiarities  which  he  brought  from  the  Wabash  region  in  the 
autumn  of  1S35.  It  is  almost  sixty  years  since  he  first  looked 
upon  our  prairies  and  our  woodland,  and  only  a  few  are  living 
now  who  trod  this  soil  before  him,  and  they  were  children, 
boys  or  young  girls  then.  His  voice  we  shall  hear  among  us 
no  more. 

14.  Thomas  Hughes,  a  resident  for  many  years  in  Eagle 
Creek  township,  having  at  one  time  the  finest  herd  of  improv- 
ed cattle  in  the  county,  noted  for  many  years  for  his  interest 
in  the  county  fairs,  having  some  months  ago  removed  to  Kan- 
sas, suddenly  died  in  his  Kansas  home  about  midnight,  on 
Monday,  July  29.  1895.  His  age  was  nearly  59  years.  His 
body  was  brought  to  Hebron  for  burial. 

15.  Died  on  Saturday,  Aug.  3,  1895,  quite  suddenly.  Jos- 
eph Hess,  about.  70  ysars  of  age.  hi  1850  he  settled  in  the  old 
North  township,  kept  cattle,  founded  Kessville,  one  mile  from 
Gibson  Station,  opened  a  store  about  1858,  became  township 
trustee,  and  was  for  many  yearn  the  leading  man  among  the 
German  inhabitants  of  the  township.  In  1872  lb  Seville  was 
quite  a  thriving  village  with  a  public  school  of  seventy  scholars. 
But  Gibson  Station  died,  Hammond  spi  ling  up  and  grew,  trade 
at  Hessville  declined,  and  the  influence  of  Joseph  H*ss  hail 
almost  ceased  to  be  felt.     Truly  the  old  times  are  no  more. 


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Weather  Report  For  1894  and  1895. 


This  record  was  commenced  at  (3  F.  ftl.  Aug.  18,  1894  when 
the  mercury  was  72  z  F.,  ttiid  has  been  kept  up  fur  nearly  eveiy 
day  until  nuw.  Such  a  record  is,  to  some,  or  large  interest, 
for  reference  in  utter  years,  but  1  have  lelt obliged  lu  condense 
it  very  much.  It  appears  from  the  daily  record  thai  dry 
weather  prevailed,  that,  Sept.  o,  the  deep  dust  turned  in  ii\e 
minutes  to  mud  when  rain  came,  and  that  a  remarkably  smoky 
atmosphere  b«d  prevailed  for  nine  days.  The  Slid  cuuld  be 
seen  but  did  not  shine.  September  was  generally  warm  with 
showers  and  some  smoky  days.  25,  frost  in  low  places.  Oct. 
J.  FiOst.  (5,  a  light  frost,  but  heavy  on  low  lands.  K),anoth 
er  frost.  14,  a  heavy  frost,  some  ice,  cold  all  day.  15,  a  trust. 
17,  warm.  Oct.  \S.  Mars  is  now  the  attractive  planet  in  the 
sky.  It  is  iii  opposition  to  the  sun,  20th,  is  high  up  at  mid- 
night, distant  only  40,000,000  miles.  Not  such  another  favor- 
able view  to  be  had  till  1906.  Oct.  20  Portulaca  in  full  blos- 
som, the  bees  working  as  though  the  mouth  was  May.  Very 
little  frost  as  yet  on  t he  central  height  of  Crown  Point,  on 
Prospect  Ridge.  Oct.  23.  The  woods  now  beautiful  in  the 
autumnal  hues.  At  noon  73°  F.  27,  strawberry  vines  grow- 
ing finely:  pastures  good.  Showers  quite  abundant  through 
the  month.  Nov.  5.  Some  robins  seen,  and  flowers  still  brigbt 
at  Crown  Point.  Nov.  6,  the  ground  slightly  frozen.  7,  some 
snow,  two  inches.  Nov.  12.  Snow  again.  Reported  a  foot 
deep  at  llobart  A  severe  sjorm  for  the  time  of  year  and  with 
a  south  wind.  16,  snow  gone.  22,  for  a  few  days  Indian  sum- 
mer. Dec.  1,  at  4  P.  M.  very  thick,  dark  mist.  No  wind.  12, 
men  plowing  and  ditching.  Pleasant  weather  continued,  some 
frost,  some  rain,  till  Dec.  27.  Then  snow  eight  inches,  28.6 e 
below  zero.  Jan.  180"),  at  first  mild.  9,  wild  geese  reported 
going  south;  12,  14  c  below  zero.  Cold  all  day.  Snow  falls 
occasionally.  13.  deep  drifts.  Jan.  18.  A  thaw.  31  c  Rain. 
20.  Snow  disappeared  rapidly,  [t  went  uy  like  a  mist.  21, 
in  the  early  morning  lightning  and  thunder,  rain  in  tin-  night. 
Jan.  21.  about  S:30the  wind  suddenly  changed,  tin-  thaw  ended, 
thewind.  W.  or  S.  W.  blew  fearfully  the  rest  of  the  day.  Said 
to  be  in  Chicago  with  a  velocity  of  sixty  miles  an  hour.  /Jan- 
uary «°nded  with  cold  davs,  snow  and  dee])  drifts,  mercury  pev- 
eral  times  below  zero.  February  came  in  with  cold  daya,  8  " 
12°  14  c  below  zero,  and  snow  and  drifts.  Feb.  7,  about  zero 
all  day.  Feb.  2-1,  snow  disappeared  rapidly.  March  was  ordi- 
narily pleasant,  a  little  snow  fell.  22,  Rome  rain,  25,  robins  and 
larks  reported,  27,  the  warmest  day  so  far  of  the  spring,  about 


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7G  °  .  29,  at  noon,  75  °  ;  12:45,  78  °  ;  1 :30,  81  °  ;  2:30,  82  °  :  3 
P.  M,  82°;  4:30,  80-  ;  air  hot,  5:45,  76°.  A- hot  March  day. 
Ground  in  good  condition  forgardening.  SkrCareli  31.  A  gentle, 
fine  rain.  April  6,  rainy.  8,  9,  11,  some  rain.  Light.  April  14. 
Flowers  in  the  woods  and  cattle  get  quite  a  little  grass  in  the 
marshes.  21,  some  showers,  24,25,83°  29,  dandelions  in 
blossom,  children  barefooted.  April  30,87°.  Woods  now 
full  of  flowers.  Wild  strawberries  in  blossom.  The  early 
spring  rloVers  are  now  in  their  fullest  bloom.  Hickory  leaves 
are  out  of  the  buds.  Cherries  and  pears  almost  in  full  blossom. 
[  May  t.     At  noon  84°.     A    glorious    May  day.     Very  dry.     4, 

at  noon  87°  .  Apple  trees  in  full  bloom.  4,  5,  light  showers, 
some  hail,  May  7  Quite  a  little  corn  has  been  planted.  A 
remarkable  season  for  the  growth  of  vegetation.  Dry  around 
Cro\\n  Point.  9,  at  1  P.M.  94°  F.  10  and  11,  some  rain. 
Cooler.  So  far  a  remarkable  spring.  Vegetation  hns  grown 
rapidly  and  steadily  until  checked  slightly  by  this  change  of 
temperature.  16,  vegetation  grows  again.  May  21.  A  quite 
heavy  frost.  Vegetation  injured  very  much.  22,  potatoevines 
in  some  gardens  black,  killed  into  the  ground.  27,  white  frost. 
'Dry.  31,  96°  .  June  3.  Very  hot,  100°  .  4,  showers  in  some 
parts  of  the  county.  11,99°.  In  the  night  a  gentle  rain. 
12,  some  rain.  13,  a  light  shower.  18,  a  heavy  rain  fall.  25, 
some  rain;  30,  a  light  ruin.  July  1,  2,  3,  4,  5,  smoky  air.  uuly 
16,  at  1  P.M.,  100°.  17,  a  delightful  rain  last  night.  IS. 
Showers.  The  dry  time  seems  now  to  have  ended.  22,  23,  24, 
smoky.  25.  26,  showers.  Latter  part  of  July  and  early  in 
August  cool  nights  and  some  cool,  quite  cool  days.  Few  sul- 
try nights  all  summer.  The  spring  was  unusually  dry.  Veg- 
etation came  forward  early  and  rapidly  till  checked  in  May  by 
a  killing  frost.  On  account  of  dry  weather  the  hay  crop  very 
light.  Oats  a  medium  crop.  Prospect  for  corn  and  potatoes 
good,  if  showers  continue,  and  if,  as  a  young  boy  of  Plum 
Grove  said,  the  frost  will  only  wait  long  enough.  No  severe 
storms  here  this  summer.  Showers,  when  they  came,  mostly 
gentle  and  pleasant.  We  have  now  had  three  quite  dry.  Mid, 
for  out-of-door  enjoyment,  very  pleasant  summers.  The  light- 
est hay  crop  this  season  that  we  have  had  for  years.  If  a  dry 
fall  comes  on,  the  pastures  will  give  little  rood. 


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HEKVEY   BALI,   1837     1868 
'irst  County  Surveyor  of  Lake  county,  Klect- 
ed  Probate  Judge  in  1844.     First  Master 
of  Lake  Lodge,  1853—1857. 


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Through  the  courtesy  of  our  Auditor,  Mr.    S.    A.    Barr,    I 

have  obtained  the  following"  facts  Hud  figures  for  insert  ion  here. 

That  they  will  prove  to  be  of  interest  1  am  sure.     T.  \\.  B. 

The  total  valuation  of  the  taxable  property  in  Lake  coun- 
ty for  1895.  without  railroad  and  telegraph  and  telephone  prop- 
erty, amounts  to  SI 5, 224, 740.  Of  this  amount  the  personal 
property  is  $2,709,000;  and  the  real  estate  property  is  $12,515,- 
740.  The  railroad  valuation  for  1894  was  about.  $8,631,460. 
The  telegraph  and  telephone  etc.,  $95,425.  The  total  tax  as- 
sessed for  1894  was  $305,931.74.  Number  of  polls  in  1895: 
North  360,  Hammond  1264,  East  Chicago  305,  making  total  in 
North  1929,  (and  as  the  number  of  men  in  North  is  4309,  very 
many  must  be  foreigners  or  over  fifty  years  of  age),  Calumet 
144,  Hobart  146,  Hobart  town  230,  total  370,  Ross 228, St.  Johns 
.  260,  Hanover  166,  Center  160,  Crown  Point  319,  total  479,  Win- 
field  109,  Eagle  Creek  97,  Cedar  Creek  146,  Lowell  117,  total 
263,  West  Creek  214.  Total  number  of  polls  4265,  and  of  men 
,  8216.     Number  of  acres  of  land  valued  in  the    county    298,476. 

West  Creek  39,451,  Cedar  Creek  37,931,  Eagle  Creek  34,878, 
Ross  31,085,  St.  Johns  25,424,  North  25,283,  Calumet  24,600, 
Center  23,895,  Hobart  21,973,  Hanover  18,177,  and  Winfield 
15,771.  Average  valuation  per  acre,  parts  of  dollars  omitted, 
Of  the  whole  county  $23.  Of  North,  excluding  Hammond, 
$53.  Of  Calumet  $43.  Of  Hobart  $24.  Of  Eagle  Creek  §10. 
Of  Cellar  Creek  $11.  Of  West  Creek  S13.  Omitting  frac- 
tions, in  Hammond  are  2,716  acres,  and  value  per  acre  ?222. 
In  East  Chicago  are  3,241  acres,  value  $123.  In  Lowell  are 
475  acres,  valued  at  %ltt}.  In  Hobart  436  acres,  value  $86.  In 
Crown  Point  are  310  acres,  valued  at  891  per  acre.  Numberof 
city  and  town  lots  in  the  county.  45,588.  The  contrast  be- 
tween the  valuation  of  land  in  the  three  northern  townships 
and  the  three  southern  townships,  as  appears  above,  when  its 
real  value  foi  agriculture  >s  considered,  is  almost  startling.  In 
ten  years  or  even  in  live  from  now  the  valuations  in  thesouth- 
ern  townships  are  likely  to  be  changed,  if  producing  heavy 
crops  of  corn  and  oats  and  grass  gives  a  value  to  land. 


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TOWNSHIP. 

MEN  21  YRS. 
OF  AGE  1895 

SCHOOL       j     SCHOOL 

chVn  1895  chVn  1890 

POPULATION 
1890 

North 

4309 
314 
695 
286 
421 
258 
81.2 
174 
178 
472 
297 

4068 
351 
934 
477 
712 
388 

1051 
237 
261 
637 
466 

1945 
301 

953 

504 
650 
328 
1051 
187 
184 
546 
404 

9631 

Calumet 

Hobart 

Ross 

944 
2197 
1427 

St.  Johns 

Hanover 

Center 

1686 

985 

2894 

W  infield 

Eagle  Creek.... 
Ced ar  Creek. . .  . 
West  Creek 

5S3 

647 

1691 

1201 

"Total 

8216 

9380 

6753 

23886 

The  figures  for  the  above  table  are  taken,  as  to  men  over 
21,  from  the  trustees'  report  to  the  Auditor,  July  1895;  as  to 
school  children,  from  trustees'  report  to  school  superintendent; 
May  1895  and  May  1890;  as  to  population  from  U.  S.  Ceusus. 
Some  curious  facts  appear. 

In  North  township  there  are  241  more  men  than  children, 
and  in  1890  the  population  was  about  five  times  the  children. 
In  most  of  the  townships  the  school  children,  tho*e  between 
six  and  twenty-one  years  of  age,  were  about,  one  fourth  of  the 
population.  Three  times  the  children  of  1890  will  about  equal 
the  population.  This  proportion  still  being  n-arly  the  same, 
four  times  the  children  of  North  would  give  to  that,  township  a 
population  now  of  about  16,000,  and  three  times  the  children 
of  the  other  townships  would  give  them  a  population  of  16,- 
000,  thus  making  our  present  population  32.0(H).  Dim  half  the 
present  number  of  school  children  is  4,690  and  North  town- 
ship wants  600  more  children  to  have  one  half;  but  estimating 
from  the  number  of  men,  and  also  from  the  Census  of  1890,  it 
seems  that  North  township  now  has  one  half  of  our  entire 
population. 


Our  Portraits.  I  hid  glad  to  be  able  to  present  in  this 
pamphlet  the  likenesses  of  ten  pioneers  or  early  citizens,  The 
cuts  were  all  made  at  the  same  house  in  Chicago,  some  from 
first  class  modern  photographs,  and  some  from  likenesses  of  a 
much  older  style.  The  artist  has  done  the  best  he  could  for 
each  one  considering  the  copy  from  which  he  had  to  work. 
The  dates  attached  to  each  name  are  from  time  of  settlement 
of  each  one  here  until  his  death.     T.  H.  B. 


CHARLES  MARVIN,  1836—1892. 

See  page  10  and  Lake  County,  1S72,  page  55. 


JAMES  HILL,  1834.     1853-  1887. 

See  Reports  1885  to  1S00,  page  12  and  Lake  County, 
1884,  page  52. 


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First  representative  from  Lake  county,  1839.     See  Lake 
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